Sen. Katie Britt gives lackluster response to Biden's State of the Union address

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While Biden's speech is hitting all the right marks with his supporters, Britt said Biden was "out of touch."

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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March 08 2024 12:07 AM EST

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U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama delivered mostly platitudes and baseless claims about Joe Biden’s presidency in giving the Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union address.

She said she is worried about the future of her children and others in her nation and called Biden a professional politician who’s “out of touch.”

“The free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader,” she said, an obvious crack at Biden’s age.

She contended that American families are worse off than previously and that “the American Dream has turned into a nightmare.” This despite the fact that job creation is up and inflation is down.

She also said life in the U.S. is increasingly dangerous, even though violent crime is down. She denounced Biden’s border policies as “a disgrace,” highlighting a woman being sex-trafficked and repeatedly raped as well as Laken Riley, whose accused killer is a man who crossed the border illegally. But Biden had negotiated a deal with Republicans in Congress for increased security at the U.S.-Mexico border, only to have Republicans withdraw their support. Former President Donald Trump wants the border as a campaign issue.

She closed her speech with a promise to protect access to in vitro fertilization. The Alabama Supreme Court recently threatened access to this procedure by ruling that embryos have the same rights as people already born, leading health care providers in her home state to cease offering the procedure, in which some embryos are discarded. She did not address the question of embryos’ rights.