- Britt is the first woman to serve in the Alabama Senate and, at 42, the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate.
- He won his Senate seat in 2022 after Trump’s endorsement propelled his primary campaign to success.
Alabama freshman Sen. Katie Britt has been tapped by Republicans to rebut President Biden’s State of the Union address next week.
The GOP rising star won his Senate seat in 2022 after serving as a longtime staffer for outgoing Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby.
Britt is the first woman to serve in the Alabama Senate and, at 42, the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate.
Trump had endorsed Britt in his 2022 primary after criticizing former Rep. Mo Brooks, whom he had first endorsed.
Alabama freshman Sen. Katie Britt has been tapped by Republicans to rebut President Biden’s State of the Union address next week.
The president will address a joint session of Congress ahead of his rebuttal to tout his accomplishments and lay out his goals ahead of an expected rematch with former President Donald Trump in November.
Speaker Mike Johnson noted that Britt is the “only current Republican mother of school-aged children serving in the Senate.”
Britt is married to former NFL player Wesley Britt and they have two children together.
‘She is an advocate for strong families, a secure border, national defense, and a vibrant economy with stable prices and opportunity for all. “The American people will tune in as the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate turns the page on the oldest president in history,” Johnson said of the Alabama senator.
Britt said in a statement from his management: ‘We will have a candid conversation about the future of our nation and I will outline the Republican vision to secure the American dream for generations to come.’
The GOP rising star won his Senate seat in 2022 after serving as a longtime staffer for outgoing Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby.
In 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders presented the rebuttal and the year before, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds did the same. In 2021, it was South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott, and in 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer refuted Trump’s comments.
McConnell said in a statement about Britt’s speech: “For three years, President Biden has tried to convince the American people to accept historic inflation, rampant crime, retreat on the world stage, and functionally open borders like the “new normal.”
‘Next week, working families will hear a very different perspective. Senator Katie Britt is an unapologetic optimist, and as one of our nation’s youngest senators, she has wasted no time becoming a leading voice in the fight to secure a stronger American future and put years of political failures behind us. Washington Democrats.’
