Tommy Tuberville: Sen. Katie Britt ‘was picked as a housewife’ to give State of the Union response

Alabama’s senior senator offered praise for his colleague, Sen. Katie Britt, on her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, according to Newsweek, said he “thought she did good.”

“You’ve got to remember that she was given the role of a mom, given the mom approach, you know, the housewife. I thought she did good. I mean, what else are you going to do? She talked about, you know, family and the direction that she would like to see the country go, and I thought she did good,” Tuberville said Friday.

“She was picked as a housewife, not just a senator, somebody who sees it from a different perspective…I mean, she did what she was asked to do. I thought she did a good job. And it’s hard when you’ve never done anything like that,” Tuberville said, according to a tweet from Igor Bobic of Huffington Post.

Efforts to reach Britt’s office for comment were not immediately successful.

Britt is an attorney who served as chief of staff for former U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby and president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama.

.@SenKatieBritt did a great job last night.

Alabama is deeply proud of her. pic.twitter.com/FP90R0s8t3 — Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) March 8, 2024

Britt on Thursday night offered the Republican Party’s response to Biden’s speech, broadcasting from her kitchen in Alabama. She was the first Alabamian to deliver the response to the State of the Union.

“One thing was clear: President Biden just doesn’t get it. He’s out of touch,” she said. “Under his Administration, families are worse off. Our communities are less safe, and our country is less secure.”

Responses to the speech ran the gamut on social media.

Britt used the address, and the kitchen setting, to illustrate issues she said Americans are facing because of Biden’s policies, such as inflation.

“I wish he understood what real families are facing around kitchen tables just like this,” Britt said.

Britt made an appeal to “my fellow moms” in her speech, which obliquely touched on in vitro fertilization.

“We are the Party of hardworking parents and families,” she said. “We want to give you and your children the opportunities to thrive – and we want families to grow. It’s why we strongly support continued nationwide access to in vitro fertilization. We want to help loving moms and dads bring precious life into this world. Wesley and I believe there is no greater blessing in life than our children.”

Alabama lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday night to a bill intended to give legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling caused some to pause services. Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill into law shortly after.

Tuberville said Britt’s comments also offered correction to the Democratic response to the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision.

“That’s totally false what Democrats are pushing. You know, the Supreme Court jumped in to help out a disaster when somebody dropped some of those embryos,” he said. “But the Statehouse jumped in, and they did a clarification, passed a law, and Governor [Kay] Ivey’s already signed it. We’re all for IVF.”

Source: www.al.com