‘Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late ’70s and early ’80s’: Republicans will hammer president for treating inflation like a ‘high-class problem’ and will push parent power in State of the Union response
- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will blast President Joe Biden and the Democrats for taking the country back in time when she gives the GOP response Tuesday
- ‘Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late ’70s and early ’80s,’ Reynolds will say
- Reynolds will also slam the Biden White House for considering inflation a ‘high-class problem’
- She will also tout the ‘pro-parent, pro-family revolution that Republicans are leading’ during her State of the Union response
- Reynolds has been tasked with giving one of the most difficult speeches in politics – remembered when there’s a blunder, forgotten if not
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will blast President Joe Biden and the Democrats for taking the country back in time when she gives the Republican Party’s State of the Union response Tuesday night.
‘Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late ’70s and early ’80s,’ Reynolds will say, according to excerpts sent out by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office. ‘When runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing on our cities, and the Soviet army was trying to redraw the world map.’
Reynolds will also slam the Biden White House for considering inflation a ‘high-class problem’ and will tout the ‘pro-parent, pro-family revolution that Republicans are leading.’
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will blast President Joe Biden and the Democrats for taking the country back in time when she gives the Republican Party’s State of the Union response Tuesday night
Reynolds has been tasked with giving one of the most difficult speeches in politics – remembered when there’s a blunder, forgotten if not.
There was now former Rep. Joe Kennedy’s too-shiny lips when he delivered the Democratic response in 2018 and Sen. Marco Rubio’s water bottle moment in 2013.
The Florida Republican awkwardly grabbed and drank from a tiny bottle of water mid-speech when he followed President Barack Obama’s State of the Union.
Kennedy’s lips were so glossy that they prompted Boston’s CBS local station to run a story, ‘Joe Kennedy Says It Wasn’t Drool, It Was ChapStick On His Lips,’ after the congressman followed former President Donald Trump five years later.
Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who followed Obama’s first joint address before Congress in 2009, was mocked for sounding too much like the 30 Rock character Kenneth the Page when he gave the Republican rebuttal.
And Rep. Michele Bachmann wasn’t looking into the correct camera in 2011 when she gave the ‘Tea Party Response.’
This year, besides Reynolds, Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib will deliver a progressive response to Biden’s speech, despite being in the same party as the president.
During her remarks, Reynolds will make clear the GOP supports Ukraine.
‘Now all Americans must stand united in solidariy with the brave people of Ukraine as they courageously defend their country against Putin’s tyranny,’ she will say. ‘As they fight for their freedom.’
Not surprisingly, she’ll go after Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
‘The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal did more than cost American lives; it betrayed our allies and emboldened our enemies,’ she’ll say.
‘North Korea is testing missiles again at an alarming rate, the Speaker of the House recently warned our Olympic athletes not to speak out against China, and now Russia has launched an unprovoked full-scale military invasion of Ukraine – an attack on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law,’ Reynolds will say.
In the run-up to the Beijing winter Olympics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned American athletes that protesting China during the games could lead to punishment from the Chinese Communist Party.
‘I would say to our athletes, you’re there to compete, ‘ Pelosi said. ‘Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government, because they are ruthless.’
Reynolds will also call attention to the Republican Party’s backing of parents who don’t want their children to be masked at school or being taught ‘critical race theory.’
‘Republicans believe that parents matter. It was true before the pandemic and has never been more important to say out loud: Parents Matter,’ she’ll say. ‘They have a right to know, and to have a say in, what their kids are being taught.’
In Virginia, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin’s pro-parents campaign allowed the first-time candidate to take out former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who’s been involved in politics for decades.
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