Nikki Haley claimed Ron DeSantis "banned fracking" during the second presidential debate last night. It's not totally fair, but there's absolutely truth to it.
Firstly, while running for governor, DeSantis’ promised on his campaign website to "work to ban fracking" in Florida:
"With Florida’s geological makeup of limestone and shallow water sources, fracking presents a danger to our state that is not acceptable. On Day 1, Ron DeSantis will advocate to the Florida Legislature to pass legislation that bans fracking in the state."
He signed Executive Order 19-12 two days after taking office directing the Department of Environmental Protection to "take necessary actions to adamantly oppose all off-shore oil and gas activities off every coast in Florida and hydraulic fracturing in Florida."
New oil and gas permits had to include provisions forbidding the use of fracking, but pre-approved fracking still occurs.
However, DeSantis' rebuttal claiming voters approved an amendment in 2018 banning fracking, is true. The amendment states: "drilling for exploration or extraction of oil or natural gas" on lands "beneath all state waters which have not been alienated and that lie between the mean high water line and the outermost boundaries of the state's territorial seas."
But I'm rating this Mostly True because he did not support the policy he now claims to champion when he was running, nor did he champion a pro-domestic energy policy including fracking as he claims to do now. Bottom line, he moved forward with action to further ban fracking.
Regardless of the amendment, the claim at its core is Mostly True.
Executive Order: https://www.flgov.com/2019/01/10/governor-ron-desantis-announces-major-water-policy-reforms/
Website Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181125143547/https://rondesantis.com/environment/
Florida Amendment 9 https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amendment_9,_Ban_Offshore_Oil_and_Gas_Drilling_and_Ban_Vaping_in_Enclosed_Indoor_Workplaces_Amendment_(2018)
I feel like tearing off my clothes and dancing in the rain (snow on Tuesday). Ofc I'm entirely too old to do that. But...
We were SO right.
Here's Snoop, who rapped "F--K Donald Trump" in 2017, now performing at a Trump supporting inauguration party.
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Watching people attempt to "unskew" polls conducted by all walks of this industry—ranging from Nate Cohn at The New York Times to Spencer Kimball at Emerson College to Tim Malloy at Quinnipiac—all to deny Donald Trump's gains against Joe Biden with various voting blocs, is more than a little sad.
The slew of recent polls over two weeks—to include no less than four today alone—have simply confirmed prior findings published from other pollsters who have previously been "unskewed". That includes your's truly and our work at BIG DATA POLL, Mark Penn at Harvard University, Patrick Ruffini at Echelon Insights, and many others.
I'm temped to equate this with an Occam's razor-like situation. But this debate is more about likelihood than simplicity.
Here's the Presidential Vote Preference Trend for Biden v. Trump going back to August 2020. The Public Polling Project did not begin asking the Rematch Question for 2024 until September 2021. However, we can still make some pretty important and interesting observations.