Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod pounced on the claim in a tweet: “Again, Ryan blames Obama for a GM plant that closed under Bush. But then, they did say they wouldn’t “let fact checkers get in the way.”
On Monday, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse, defending the campaign’s blatantly false ads claiming President Obama removed work requirements from welfare, said, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”