Brain Freeze: Joe Biden Says Sen. Rick Scott of Florida Represents ‘Wisconsin’

 

 

By CHARLIE SPIERING

• President Joe Biden on Tuesday mistakenly said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was from Wisconsin in a speech about inflation.
  

• “They’ve made their intentions perfectly clear,” he said, reading from his teleprompter at the White House. “Senator Rick Scott of Wisconsin, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, laid it out in a plan as the ultra MAGA agenda.”

• Scott is the senator representing Florida in the United States Senate, not Wisconsin.

• The president did not correct himself during his speech.

• Biden responded to Scott saying that the president should “resign” because of his failure to address inflation.

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  “Resign? That’s a good idea,” Biden replied sarcastically, saying that Scott “has a problem.”

• The president continued his crafted talking points warning about the “ultra MAGA” Republicans taking over the party.

• “I never expected the ultra MAGA Republicans who seem to control the Republican party now to have been able to control the Republican party,” he said. “I never anticipated that happening.”

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