Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
For many Republicans, the problem with Sen. Katie Britt’s response to the State of the Union address was obvious before it was even over. An adviser to Donald Trump, for example, asked during the Alabama senator’s remarks, “What the hell am I watching right now?” It was not an uncommon question.
” But it was also plainly misleading: By omitting highly relevant details — the abuses Romero endured predated Biden’s presidency by decades, and Romero does not appear to have ever lived or sought asylum in the United States — viewers were obviously given a false impression of what happened and when. It led The Washington Post to publish a fact-check report that concluded, “In a high-profile speech like this, a politician should not mislead voters with emotionally charged language.
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