U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Indian Shores, and U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando, faced off as Senate campaign rivals in an open debate on April 25, 2016.

Fact-checking the U.S. Senate candidates from Florida

We put several statements from hopefuls looking to fill Marco Rubio’s seat to the Truth-O-Meter test.

Rulings from PolitiFact National

"Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top ... — Donald Trump
"In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash." — Hillary Clinton
It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants ... — Donald Trump
"There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. ... — Donald Trump
"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This ... — Donald Trump
"The only two (Donald Trump tax returns) we have show that he hasn't paid ... — Hillary Clinton
"Let me say that I don't think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ... — Hillary Clinton
"When I was secretary of state, I had a very high approval rating." — Hillary Clinton
"We now do have evidence" that Donald Trump is being used as a recruiting ... — Hillary Clinton
"We just had the best year for the auto industry in America in history." — Hillary Clinton
Says "Elizabeth Warren lied when she says I want to abolish the Federal Minimum ... — Donald Trump
"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason ... — Bernie Sanders
Says Donald Trump said of women, "And you can tell them to go f--- ... — Priorities USA Action
Since 2009, "after-tax incomes are up nearly 14 percent." — Penny Pritzker
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to abolish the Second Amendment." — Donald Trump

The Latest from PolitiFact Florida

He has his own gun permit

Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Says "I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."

Claims of success don't hold up under science, investigations

Todd Wilcox

"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."

Be in the Top 10 and Top 25 ranked public universities

Update: Rick Scott aims to improve UF and FSU rankings

Make Florida No. 1 in higher education affordability

Update: Rick Scott wants Florida to have lowest public university tuition in nation

The only estimate available isn't set in stone

Vote No On 2

"Amendment 2 will put almost 2,000 pot shops in Florida ... more pot shops than Walmart and Walgreens combined."

Grayson attack derailed

Alan Grayson

Says Patrick Murphy "switched his vote on All Aboard Florida ... because his father tried to get in a bid to build it and was unsuccessful."

Murphy said it was to clear Clinton's name

Alan Grayson

Says Patrick Murphy is one of "only three Democrats in the House today who voted" to create the Benghazi committee.

No nukes, as long as Iran follows the rules

Carlos Beruff

Says President Obama’s deal "allows Iran to produce a nuclear weapon."

No one can agree what the rule does

David Jolly

Under a new federal regulation, it will cost Pinellas County "$31 million to fix a single ditch."

Cheap labor for a posh resort

Ted Cruz

Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."

California added more overall jobs, but Florida added them at a faster rate

Jerry Brown

"California has added twice as many jobs as Florida" over the past year.

— PolitiFact California

These job numbers are apples and oranges

Enterprise Florida

"Seven hundred thousand. That’s how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage….Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them."

No matter how you count, the answer is still zero

Alan Grayson

"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."

Much the same as when Nixon went to China

Donald Trump

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."

— PolitiFact National

A different kind of salary cap

Alan Grayson

Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."

One conservative principle trumped another

David Jolly

Says he "was the only Republican" to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.

Tax changes aren't always what he wanted

Rick Scott

"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."

Individuals, yes. Government, maybe.

Bob Graham

"We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida."

— PolitiFact National

Not enough lovin' from state GOP for Trump?

Corey Lewandowski

"The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates."

Nobody was talking about Trump

Donald Trump

Says Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio "had it set so that the winner takes everything, because they wanted to make sure that I didn't get anything" in the Florida primary.