Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama gave the GOP response to President Biden’s annual address—and got panned for it by some in her own party.
delivered the official Republican response, a stern but bizarrely delivered rebuttal that focused heavily on immigration and the economy.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—something that could have potential implications for her consideration as a vice presidential pick for the former president. “Everyone’s fucking losing it,” this Republican said, requesting anonymity to discuss private conversations. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.” 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 ,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications adviser and Nikki Haley supporter . “I do not understand the decision to put her in a KITCHEN for one of the most important speeches she’s ever given.”that while Britt “is incredibly impressive, unsure why she felt the need to deliver the SOTU response from a kitchen.”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 and Speaker Paul Ryan , also acknowledged that Britt’s “delivery was unfortunate.”Britt went for a dramatic performance with her State of the Union rebuttal. But her delivery turned out to be so dramatic that it ended up being distracting at best and disingenuous at worst. 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.
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