Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala. ) said Republican leadership should have spent more time reviewing Sen. Katie Britt’s response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address earlier this month.
Britt has come under fire for using a two decades old sex trafficking story that took place in Mexico, to criticize Biden’s immigration policies.
“That obviously didn’t go over too well,” Tuberville told CNN’s Manu Raju when asked about the Alabama senator’s decision to share the story.
“I would think that our leadership would have vetted that a little bit more because I would imagine they helped her with that,” he added. “You know, and that’s again, that’s a mistake made. But it was a good point of emphasis of what really goes on from the border. And I think that’s what she was trying to get over more than anything.”
Britt defended her use of the story amid the backlash, arguing it is emblematic of the Biden administration’s border policies.
“In [Biden’s] first 100 days he had 94 executive actions, and those executive actions didn’t just create the crisis. They invited it,” Britt told Fox News. “The truth is, and the media knows that they’re not covering it, that human trafficking has gone up under President Biden.”
“I didn’t say, a young woman, a grown woman, a woman when she was trafficked when she was 12,” the senator added. “And so listening to her story, she is a victims’ rights advocate who is telling … this is what drug cartels are doing. This is how they’re profiting off of women. And it is disgusting.”
