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Source: Rolling Stone
THE RITUAL SURROUNDING the annual State of the Union is never complete until the president's opposition has presented its rebuttal -- occasionally in an embarrassing manner.
Katie Britt, the junior Republican senator from Alabama, delivered the GOP's rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address on Thursday. Her impassioned, breathless speech -- delivered at times in an ASMR-esque whisper from what appeared to be her kitchen -- ended up feeling more like a rejected audition tape for a supporting role on "Grey's Anatomy" than the hard-hitting political sparring favored by Biden's Republican critics.
Into the late hours of the night, Rolling Stone was inundated, sometimes completely unprompted, with messages from longtime GOP operatives, right-leaning pollsters, conservative Capitol Hill staff, MAGA lawyers, and even some senior members of Trump's own 2024 campaign absolutely torching Britt's absurdly over-dramatic rebuttal.
"What the hell am I watching right now?" a Trump adviser asked, mid-Britt remarks.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/katie-britt-sotu-rebuttal-torched-republicans-1234983528/
Meanwhile, on a sports forum, Trumpers are in agony.
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/yikes-katie-britt-comes-across/112546315/page-4/?fbclidIwAR3vFYHAQMWbPutNzCttRXpgWLS5fmtwmrnTdSp2kr49YcPCbQMicyk-ZX4
"Unfortunately this is a lock to be a SNL skit Saturday. They probably just started work on it now."
And from the Huff Post:
Sen. Katie Britt's deeply weird Biden response is freaking people out.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-britt-weird-rebuttal_n_65ea95e3e4b0c77c7415f5f8