House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said he'd give Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden a grade of "M for misleading" for his acceptance speech, because there were "so many points in there where they just left out the facts."
"[He] literally said that he won't let Russia interfere with the elections under his watch," the Louisiana Republican said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "It was under the Obama-Biden administration where Russia tried to interfere with the election. It was an FBI official under the Obama administration and Biden administration who just pled guilty a few days ago to trying to spy on the Trump campaign. All this happened under Joe Biden's watch."
Biden also criticized President Donald Trump for stopping flights from coming in from China at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but if that hadn't happened, American lives wouldn't have been saved, said Scalise.
Biden has also said he wants to reallocate money from police departments, but "defunding and reallocating are the same things," said Scalise. "We need safe streets. I know firsthand how important it is to have law enforcement and the important job they do keeping us safe," he added. Scalise was seriously injured during a 2017 shooting at a practice for a congressional baseball game, and police officers killed his shooter.
Biden, he added, has been in political office and has said he'd "solve every problem in the world," but he hasn't solved any of them.
"If you look at President Trump's record, in just three years, he has delivered on all the promises he has made," said Scalise.
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