Poli­ti­Fact Refus­es To Give Rubio ‘True’ Rat­ing For True State­ment

It is a time-hon­ored tra­di­tion that dur­ing cam­paign sea­son, politi­cians will defend them­selves by claim­ing that “since I took office” such-and-such has hap­pened or attack their oppo­nents by argu­ing that “since so-and-so took office” this has hap­pened, but when Flori­da Sen. Mar­co Rubio tried that tac­tic against Pres­i­dent Biden and his infla­tion record, Poli­ti­Fact slapped him with a “half-true” rat­ing despite admit­ting his num­bers were com­plete­ly true.
The spe­cif­ic claim Rubio made was that “It’s very mis­lead­ing …