LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt confided Tuesday that she counts some Democratic colleagues amongst her greatest buddies within the Senate and stated such cross-party relationships are important to governing, particularly as social media fuels widening political divisions.
Throughout a go to to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s hometown, the first-term Alabama Republican additionally recounted how she carved out a novel position within the GOP convention as an adviser to McConnell and spoke concerning the want for U.S. energy to discourage threats from overseas adversaries.
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Almost a month after delivering a blistering critique of Democratic President Joe Biden for her celebration, Britt harassed the significance of treating folks with respect — even when disagreeing with them on points — in a speech on the College of Louisville.
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., speaks as a part of the Distinguished Speaker Sequence hosted by Sen. Mitch McConnell on the College of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photograph/Timothy D. Easley)
“How do we get back to that in this country, where you don’t actually have to agree with someone to show them respect?” she stated. “In today’s society it is increasingly hard to have an open and honest dialogue with somebody else that maybe doesn’t share your viewpoint. I think it’s a disservice, both to our people as a nation and to the progress that we can make.”
McConnell launched Britt to the viewers and stated she had “mastered a skill that still confounds some of my colleagues — you don’t have to agree with someone to work with them.”
Britt talked about Democratic Sens. John Fetterman, Peter Welch and Cory Booker as amongst her “greatest friends” within the Senate. And he or she pointed to the instance set by her one-time boss, former Sen. Richard Shelby, and Democratic former Sen. Patrick Leahy.
“They showed that you do not have to agree with someone to show them respect,” Britt stated, including that social media has accelerated the divide, turning some folks into extra of a “show horse than a workhorse.”
The nation must have powerful conversations to sort out a myriad of adverse points, akin to securing the nation’s Southern border, decreasing drug overdose deaths and making housing and little one care extra reasonably priced, Britt stated. Overseas, the nation must confront threats from Russia, China and Iran — after the U.S.’s abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan “sent shockwaves” internationally, she stated.
Britt did not touch upon the Republican rebuttal she gave in March to Biden’s State of the Union that introduced her a lot criticism: She used a harrowing account of a younger girl’s sexual abuse to assault Biden’s border insurance policies, however the rapes didn’t occur within the U.S. or throughout the Biden administration.
The 42 year-old mom of two, as a substitute, recounted Tuesday how McConnell noticed her discussions about motherhood as her strengths.
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“What I had seen as maybe a weakness — not looking like everybody else, not being like everybody else, not having the pedigree of everyone else – was actually a strength,” Britt stated Tuesday.
The 82-year-old McConnell famous some issues he has in widespread with the freshman senator — each are from Alabama, although the longtime Kentucky senator quipped he tries to “keep that quiet up here.” And each have been lampooned on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I know it’s going to take a lot more than a few punches from the press to knock her down,” he stated.
