Rep. Chip Roy bashed the GOP for letting freshman Sen. Katie Britt give the rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address, saying they threw her “to the wolves.”
“The #SwampGOP doesn’t get it, as evidenced by the #SOTU debacle,” the Texas Republican wrote in one of the multiple posts on X.
He said Ms. Britt, Alabama Republican, was recruited to give the rebuttal on national TV “knowing she has not yet given even a Senate speech.”
Ms. Britt’s speech was quickly criticized, with people calling out the fact that she gave the speech from her kitchen during Women’s History Month and how the message felt disingenuous.
“Saturday Night Live” did a skit of the speech with Scarlett Johansson as Ms. Britt. Users on TikTok compared the Republican congresswoman to Serena Joy, the character in the book-turned-show “The Handmaid’s Tale,” who plays the wife of the commander and pushes “traditional values.”
Mr. Roy criticized the GOP for not “fact-checking the speech to help protect her from making an error with an outdated anecdote, & thus allow radical progressive democrats to make THAT the story rather than their dangerous, purposeful open border policies endangering Americans.”
During her speech, Ms. Britt used an example of a woman being raped in Mexico to attack Mr. Biden’s border policies, but the example didn’t happen during the Biden administration.
He said, “These same chamber-of-commerce GOP were complicit in creating, & then sit silently & let the world pile on Sen. Britt (whose sin is not the speech, but ever siding with fools running #SwampGOP.)”
The congressman urged people to vote in the primaries if they want to see change.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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