Katie Britt's widely ridiculed speech was 'audition to be Trump's VP': GOP adviser

Republican political analyst and strategist Susan Del Percio told MSNBC on Monday that Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama killed her shot at being vice president.

In a broader conversation about GOP opposition to new mothers in Congress being allowed to vote remotely for six weeks after giving birth, an MSNBC panel turned to the Republican senator's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address, presented from her kitchen Thursday.

Host Chris Jansing began by referring to the "controversy that came after the controversy" surrounding Britt's embellished and fact-challenged story about a sex-trafficked woman, which Britt blamed on Biden despite it happening during the administration of George W. Bush — and in Mexico rather than the U.S.

But, when asked about it on Fox News on Sunday, Britt danced around the answer, refusing to say if she intended to misleadingly connect the woman's experience with Biden but saying sex trafficking on the border was a valid conversation to have currently.

"To be clear, the story that you relate is not something that's happened under the Biden administration, that particular person," Fox host Shannon Bream said, interviewing Britt.

She answered, “So listening to her story, she was a victims-right advocate who is saying this is what drug cartels are doing, this is how they’re profiting off of women, and it is disgusting. So I am hopeful that it brings some light to it and we can actually do something about human trafficking and that that’s what the media actually decides to cover.”

Jansing asked if that was a valid explanation.

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"No, but since it was viewed as an audition to be Trump's V.P. candidate, it makes sense that she would double down when she got caught and continue to spin a non-truth, if you will," said Del Percio. "I'm not surprised she did it, but it was — I'm really surprised at her staff actually, that no one checked out this story and knew it was coming."

"Or did they?" Jansing asked back.

Del Percio agreed: "Or did they? Or did they get the story from Donald Trump? I mean, that could be it, too."

See the full conversation between the strategists in the video below or at the link here.

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