The 2024 presidential hopeful spoke with host Shannon Bream and homed in on the poor state of public education systems across the country, and addressed some criticism leveled at him by Obama last week.
“There's no higher compliment than to be attacked by President Obama,” Scott said. “Whenever the Democrats feel threatened, they pull out – drag out – the former president, have him make some negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down.”
“The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left,” he added, referring to claims of systemic racism in the U.S.
Scott went on to blast Obama and the Democrats for refusing to allow school choice programs in “big blue cities.” The candidate highlighted his own efforts to raise funding for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), but said Obama and the “radical left” have not produced results when it comes to education.
“They have failed, they have failed, and they have failed,” he said.
The comments came just days after Scott and Obama exchanged barbs on racial issues. Scott repeated his argument from last week that the former president had missed a key opportunity to develop racial unity during his two terms in office.