#Sen. Katie Britt

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As President Joe Biden mingled on the House floor following his State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) gave the official Republican response, a stern but bizarrely delivered rebuttal that focused heavily on immigration and the economy.

The freshman senator is considered a rising star in the party. But her speech’s intense tone—with an over-the-top dramatic cadence that was delivered in a kitchen—left political operatives and observers struggling to make sense of it.

The performance was so bad that some Republicans watched the high-profile speech with a grimace. A GOP strategist told The Daily Beast that Britt’s delivery quickly became a gossip item Thursday night among operatives connected to Donald Trump—something that could have potential implications for her consideration as a vice presidential pick on the 2024 ticket.

“Everyone’s fucking losing it,” this Republican said, requesting anonymity to discuss private conversations. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.”

Several popular social media influencers in the MAGA camp also panned the speech; the account Catturd tweeted Britt was "awful" to his 2.4 million followers.

The setting of the kitchen table—more so the kitchen than the table—for Britt’s speech also left some seasoned Republican strategists confused.

“Senator Katie Britt is a very impressive person. She ran a hell of race in [Alabama],” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications adviser and Nikki Haley supporter posted on X. “I do not understand the decision to put her in a KITCHEN for one of the most important speeches she’s ever given.”

Olivia Perez-Cubas, the former spokesperson for Haley’s 2024 presidential bid, also said in a post on X that while Britt “is incredibly impressive, unsure why she felt the need to deliver the SOTU response from a kitchen.”

Tim Miller, the former Jeb Bush aide turned ex-Republican, called the kitchen setting “creepy” and said it made former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s much-maligned response to Barack Obama in 2009 “look like the Finest Hour speech.”

Brendan Buck, a former senior adviser to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), also acknowledged that Britt’s “delivery was unfortunate.”

“She was clearly overcoached,” Buck said on MSNBC.

Britt went for a dramatic performance with her State of the Union rebuttal, casting Biden as a failed president and arguing that the GOP was the best option for regular working families.

But the senator's delivery turned out to be so dramatic that it ended up being distracting at best and disingenuous at worst.

Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative commentator, posted on X Friday morning that Britt had genuine appeal in coming across like "the moms at the school drop off" and praised the kitchen setting.

"But the delivery was parody-level terrible, and I promise that didn’t sway any of those suburban moms we’re trying to reach," Stuckey wrote.

State of the Union responses from rising stars in the opposing party are notorious for generating awkward, unflattering moments that can follow a politician through an otherwise solid career. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is still remembered for awkwardly taking a sip of water during his response speech over a decade ago.

The GOP strategist who called Britt's performance a disaster likened it to Rubio’s water moment—but they said Britt was actually worse and that she “lowered her stature” in doing it.

A Britt spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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Sen. Katie Britt Criticizes President Biden's Immigration Policies, Urges Action on Border Crisis

Read the latest news on Sen. Katie Britt's criticism of President Biden's handling of immigration policies and the urgent need for action to address the border crisis. Discover the shocking details and statistics surrounding illegal border crossings and the influence of Mexican cartels in the United States.

[prolifeproliberty]

Ted Cruz has really disappointed me here.

IVF is not pro-life.

Please call your senators and ask them to reject this bill. If your senator ran as a pro-life candidate or claims to be pro-life, PLEASE emphasize in your call that IVF is not compatible with pro-life values.

Even if you don’t care about IVF specifically, this bill represents huge federal overreach. It’s like the Roe v Wade of IVF. And worse, because it’s legislation and not a court case.

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David McAfee and Matthew Chapman at Raw Story:

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is being ridiculed on social media for a new piece of proposed legislation that, while billed as a child support bill for new moms, is being panned as yet another dystopian intrusion into women's pregnancies. Britt, who came to the forefront of the political conversation following her heavily-mocked response to President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address, announced the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) Act. The bill would create a registry of pregnant women, who would then be steered to support services that include "crisis pregnancy centers" — usually faith-based groups designed to shame or trick women seeking abortions into keeping their pregnancies anyway. "To all of my fellow moms out there, my goal is to give you and your children the opportunities to thrive and to live your American dreams," Britt said in a video announcing the policy.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) coming in strong with the Handmaiden's Tale vibes with her grossly anti-abortion MOMS Act bill that purports to help women but in reality would promote fake clinics (crisis pregnancy centers) and have a federal pregnancy tracker.

See Also:

Salon: Katie Britt is back at it, pushing a bill to launch a pregnancy tracking federal database

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Sen. Katie Britt delivers the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address

😂 I did not have Scarlett Johansson on my Bingo card 🤣

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Karla Jacinto Romero, the woman whose story Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union last week, slammed the Alabama senator for inaccurately using her story to highlight Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Republican Senator shares tragic sex crime story on national TV, saying it happened because of Biden's lax border policies

Tearfully recounts how when she visited the Texas border, this brave woman told her PERSONALLY how she was raped & beaten up to 12 times a day while held captive by Mexican drug lords in Texas

Journalist discovers it had nothing to do with Mexican drug lords

and occurred between 2004-2008

So not recently, like not even close

It happened during the George W. Bush administration

You know, George W Bush, the Democrat Republican president

who was running things at the time

also it happened in Mexico, not Texas

AND THEN THE ACTUAL WOMAN WHO SURVIVED THE ORDEAL COMES FORWARD and boy is she pissed about being used as a political prop

So to recap: this poor woman endures a horrible experience decades ago, but while no doubt still having nightmares & PTSD, has managed to put her life back together. AND THEN this absolute shitweasel of a MAGA Republican drags her story back into the spotlight, ON NATIONAL TV as a cheap attack on a political foe.

I'd be pissed too.

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Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is ‘not fair’ | CNN Politics

The woman whose story Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Biden’s failed immigration policies told CNN she was trafficked before Biden’s presidency and said legislators lack empathy when using the issue of human trafficking for political purposes.

Said Karla Jacinto: “I hardly ever cooperate with politicians, because it seems to me that they only want an image. They only want a photo — and that to me is not fair.”

“Jacinto said she met the senator at an event at the southern border with other government officials and anti-human-trafficking activists, instead of one-on-one as Britt stated.”

[tomorrowusa]

Republicans really wanted to spotlight Sen. Katie Britt by having her give the GOP response to the State of the Union. Their plan succeeded wildly – though not in the way they had hoped.

As for the SNL sketch, a YouTube commenter called @shehulking posted:

Scarlett Johansson plays Katie Britt better than Katie Britt plays Katie Britt.

[pro-birth]

Pro-aborts are scaremongering again, and AGAIN they want pregnant women in need to be the collateral damage for their baby killing agenda.

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Who will Trump pick as his VP candidate? (Part 1)

Who do you think Donald Trump will pick as his running mate in 2024? This does not mean who you would prefer--just who you think is most likely.

I've divided the possibilities into 4 polls because Tumblr only allows 12 choices per poll. Here are the senators. You can also vote in the other polls for representatives, governors, and non-politicians.

After these polls close, I'll post a final round consisting of the top choices.

Tumblr does not allow political posts like this to be Blazed. So to increase participation, please reblog if US politics is a topic that you post about.

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The murder of Laken Riley took center stage during Thursday night's State of The Union. Riley was a 22-year-old student who was killed last month at the University of Georgia. The suspect in her murder is a Venezuelan migrant whom officials say was illegally in the U.S.

During the Republican rebuttal, Riley's murder was brought up by Alabama Sen. Katie Britt. "She was brutally murdered by one of the millions of illegal border crossers President Biden chose to release into our homeland. Y'all ... as a mom, I can't quit thinking about this. I mean, this could have been my daughter. This could have been yours."

The claim that immigration brings on a crime wave can be traced back to the first immigrants who arrived in the U.S. Ever since the 1980s and '90s, this false narrative saw a resurgence.

During the current presidential campaign, the vitriol has been intense. Just in the last few months, former president Donald Trump has spoken of immigrants as criminals and mentally ill people who are "poisoning the blood of our country". Florida Gov. (and former presidential candidate) Ron DeSantis suggested migrants crossing the border be shot.

However, research indicates that immigrants commit less crimes than U.S.-born people.

Much of the available data focuses on incarceration rates because that's where immigration status is recorded.

Some of the most extensive research comes from Stanford University. Economist Ran Abramitzky found that since the 1960s, immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born people.

There is also state level research, that shows similar results: researchers at the CATO Institute, a Libertarian think tank, looked into Texas in 2019. They found that undocumented immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a crime.

Beyond incarceration rates, research also shows that there is no correlation between undocumented people and a rise in crime. Recent investigations by The New York Times and The Marshall Project found that between 2007 and 2016, there was no link between undocumented immigrants and a rise in violent or property crime in those communities.

The reason for this gap in criminal behavior might have to do with stability and achievement. The Stanford study concludes that first-generation male immigrants traditionally do better than U.S-.born men who didn't finish high school, which is the group most likely to be incarcerated in the U.S.

The study also suggests that there's a real fear of getting in trouble and being deported within immigrant communities. Far from engaging in criminal activities, immigrants mostly don't want to rock the boat.

But the idea that immigrants bring crime remains widespread.

A few months ago, NPR reported on a migrant shelter functioning in Staten Island, N.Y. Anthony Pagano, the owner of a flower shop located close to the shelter, told NPR he was against it being located in his community.

"How do you put migrants across from an elementary school? An all-girl high school, and another public elementary school," he asked. "You don't know who they are. Criminals. You see all the crimes that are being committed by migrants."

New York City Police data shows there was no rise in murder, rapes or robberies in the area.

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The U.S. Senate voted June 5 to block the so-called “Right to Contraception Act,” which supporters said would protect women’s access to contraception. But conservatives say the bill would actually go much further and is part of a continuing campaign that Sen. Katie Britt (R-Alabama) called a “summer of scare tactics” being pushed by Democrats.

Conservative leaders pointed out that the bill’s vague wording could clear the way for minors to undergo transgender surgeries, as well as receive puberty blockers and procure abortions. The bill’s text reads, in part, that it is designed “to protect an individual’s ability to make decisions about their body, medical care, family, and...

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Igor Bobic at HuffPost:

MILWAUKEE ― After the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life over the weekend, Republicans and Democrats alike called on the country to turn down the political rhetoric and unite as Americans. It didn’t last long. On Monday morning, Trump railed against his criminal indictments, called the Jan. 6 insurrection a “hoax,” and accused Democrats of orchestrating all his legal troubles in a post on his social media site, Truth Social.

[...] And although speakers at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee were more subdued than usual during the evening prime-time hours, calling for unity after the shooting, there were still notable attacks on Democrats and their policies. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), for example, opened the slate of GOP speeches by attacking the “radical far-left agenda,” which he defined as a “fringe … that includes biological males competing against girls and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children.” He went on to call Democratic policies “a clear and present danger to our institutions, our values and our people,” drawing cheers from the audience. [...] “The current president is not capable of turning things around,” Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said on Monday. “His weakness is costing us our opportunity, our prosperity, our safety. Each diminshed. All in decline. Just like the man in the Oval Office.”

Attendees at the convention also saw a video montage displayed on TV screens showing Biden walking up the steps of Air Force One, the presidential plane, with a narrator concluding, “He can’t even walk up steps or put on his coat.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who posted on social media that “Democrats wanted this to happen” in regard to the Trump rally shooting by a 20-year-old registered Republican whose motive is not yet known, similarly gave a more toned-down speech at the GOP convention. But she, too, couldn’t hold entirely back, railing against “globalists,” attacking transgender people and immigrants, and decrying U.S. support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. Republicans also gave North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson a speaking slot at their convention, an eyebrow-raising decision given his long list of incendiary comments in recent years, including calling for making abortion illegal “for any reason,” mocking school shooting survivors, calling LGBTQ people “filth,” and appearing to endorse political violence in a speech last month.

The bid for unity at the RNC in the wake of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump went out the door the first night on the floor, as several speakers-- most notably Ron Johnson and MTG-- used their speeches to push for divisive culture war issues such as mocking President Biden’s cognitive decline and bashing trans people and Ukrainian aid.