‘We Continue to Have a Woman Problem’: Republican Lawmaker Pans Katie Britt’s SOTU Response, Asks, ‘Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?’ 

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) received some brutal reviews for her rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, including one from an anonymous Republican lawmaker.

Britt delivered her “completely weird” speech from her kitchen in Montgomery, Alabama. The choice was not lost on some, who wondered why the GOP – which has struggled with women voters, especially as the party restricts reproductive freedom across the country – would choose that room. Moreover, Britt’s delivery was a rollercoaster of emotions and tones.

Appearing on Friday’s AC360 on CNN, Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona, who called Britt’s presentation “dramatic and halting,” relayed the words of some Republicans on The Hill.

“Here’s what one GOP lawmaker told me, using some rather colorful language to criticize the speech,” she told Anderson Cooper. The review was decidedly not rave:

Who thought this was a good idea?… If this is our attempt to get suburban women, good f***ing luck with that. I thought both the SOTU and the rebuttal were unwatchable. We continue to have a woman problem, just keep shooting ourselves in the face.

Zanona added that a “senior GOP aide” said Britt’s rebuttal was “difficult to watch,” but that delivering the SOTU response is “an impossible task.”

CNN then aired clips of Republican lawmakers praising Britt.

Cooper responded by noting that the senator seems perfectly capable of giving a normal speech.

“It’s interesting because she made a video right before she did the State of the Union in which she was talking normally,” he said. “And had she just talked normally, I don’t think there would be all this kerfuffle. It was the sort of, the drama school delivery or like the regional theater audition delivery of it that was sort of so captivatingly bizarre or bizarrely captivating.”

Watch above via CNN.