Posted on 03/07/2024 11:13:14 AM PST by jacknhoo
Katie Britt, a first-term Republican senator from Alabama, has been selected by party leadership to deliver the GOP response to President Biden's State of the Union address Thursday.
"Americans are struggling amid a border catastrophe, crushing inflation, an increasingly dangerous world, and fears about a President not up to the task. Against this backdrop, Senator Katie Britt will share her incredible story as the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Alabama," said Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in a statement. "As the only current Republican mom of school-aged kids serving in the Senate, Katie is fighting to preserve the American Dream for the next generation."
"The American people will tune in as the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate turns the page on the oldest President in history," Johnson said.
Who is Katie Britt? Britt was born and raised in Enterprise, Ala., where her parents owned a hardware store and dance studio. She and her husband, Wesley, a former NFL player, live in Montgomery with their two children, Bennett and Ridgeway.
She attended the University of Alabama for her undergraduate and law degrees and was a long-time staff member for her predecessor, Sen. Richard Shelby, before his retirement in 2022.
What will Katie Britt say in her response to Biden's State of the Union address? Britt, like many of her fellow Republicans, is an outspoken critic of the Biden administration's response to record levels of migrant arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Announcing her opposition to a failed bipartisan immigration reform proposal last month, Britt said that the president "has made it clear that he doesn't want to end the border crisis – he wants to enable it."
She also presents a striking visual contrast to both President Biden and many of her Senate colleagues. Britt, 42, is one of nine women in the Senate Republican conference and one of just five senators under the age of 45.
"The Republican Party is the party of hardworking parents and families, and I'm looking forward to putting this critical perspective front and center," Britt said in a statement. "There is no doubt that President Biden's failed presidency has made America weaker and more vulnerable at every turn. At this decisive moment in our country's history, it's time for the next generation to step up and preserve the American Dream for our children and our grandchildren."
In a presidential election year, it is also likely that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will loom large in her remarks.
Britt endorsed Trump in a December op-ed, writing that "despite the dark clouds that haunt our country's horizon, I believe with every fiber of my being that our nation's best days are yet to come," touting what she sees as Trump's leadership on the border and embrace of "peace through strength."
Trump should be delivering the response, not some new first-term senator that know one has ever heard of.
In part I agree, but the optics of having a young woman Republican Senator juxtaposed to Biden’s tired old rhetoric will be good.
Katie Britt’s audition for VP?
“who will deliver the Republican State of the Union response?”
Trump will, during this fiasco of a speech by Biden.
Trump announces play-by-play commentary of Biden’s State of the Union
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4222454/posts
Except for the fact that the networks and major social media companies would blackout such an event? They have no excuse to not cover the Senator.
Additionally, Trump is going to be holding a LIVE reaction session to Biden’s SOTU, side by side at the same time. He’s going to be a bit busy to give a speech afterwards, and what Trump is doing will resonate with younger voters far better. It will also show that despite his age, he’s still all with it, something Biden can’t.
Trump should be everywhere doing everything?
No.
...not some new first-term senator that know one has ever heard of.
It's better to have a long time Senator deliver the response instead of a senator who is new to DC?
No, again.
Gawd. Please, no.
She’s a twit, a staffer working for that geriatric senator. McConnell, Corning and the Republican Senate committee got behind her because she would be easily manipulated. It’s hard to imagine that she’s a US senator now.
Jesus Christ, Katie Brett for senator? It’s really hard to find someone I can imagine as less qualified to be president.
Gov Kristi Noem is the most likely,,,but Katie Britt is certainly a dark horse is she does well tonight.
Goes to college, gets a job as a press secretary for Senator Shelby, bounces around a few appointee kind of jobs. Then when that one senator got too old to roll into the chambers, McConnell and Cornyn push the youngest female ever into the senate. She’s barely qualified to go get coffee for an actual senator. She is part of the wing of the republican party that entails to hijack Maga. And she’s been nowhere to be seen or heard in everything they’re doing to Trump. She’s barely qualified to run the local PTA.
Utterly deranged. What has Katie Britt ever done that makes you think she could step in to the job of president? Hell, she makes even Kristi Noem look like an elder statesman.
I think that pretty-much any Conservative engaged in politics has heard of her.
Trump’s VP will be Kristi Noem, Seasoned politician, successful Governor, take no prisoners grit. Will help swing the white suburban women vote. And let’s see, what else?
Oh, that’s it, ONE HOT BABE!
“Goes to college, gets a job as a press secretary for Senator Shelby, bounces around a few appointee kind of jobs. Then when that one senator got too old to roll into the chambers, McConnell and Cornyn push the youngest female ever into the senate. She’s barely qualified to go get coffee for an actual senator. She is part of the wing of the republican party that entails to hijack Maga. And she’s been nowhere to be seen or heard in everything they’re doing to Trump. She’s barely qualified to run the local PTA.”
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Is that you, George Conway?
We get it, you don't like her.
Maybe she's not as polished and well-spoken as you, but Alabama's voters elected her - or are they all delusional?
She’s a hand picked shill of the deep state.
She was the head of the Business Council of Alabama who advocated for cheap labor.
She worked on mayor of Montgomeridishu AL Steven “Obama lite” Reed’s transition team crafting policies to gut police funding.
Her campaign benefitted from attack ads against her opponents that were financed by dark money through a Austin TX based liberal shadow PAC.
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