“This is a speech delivered from a planet where facts don’t matter, which is where the current Republican Party resides,” said Wallace, a communications director for President George W. Bush. “It’s really not his fault, but it is his responsibility to get his facts straight.”
Wallace wasn’t buying it.
“He said that Biden inherited a country that had already rounded the bend on COVID,” she said. “Four thousand people a day were dying in January, so I don’t know, again, on what planet we rounded the bend.”
She said Scott’s speech contained “a lot of disinformation” that felt “almost scripted” by someone close to Trump.
Wallace also delivered a fact-check to Scott’s comments on the Georgia voting law:
