WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the announcement in a statement Thursday night. They say Kennedy is “a relentless fighter for working Americans.” The 37-year-old Kennedy is serving his third term in the House.
Pelosi and Schumer say Elizabeth Guzman of Virginia will deliver the Spanish-language response to Trump’s speech. Guzman, 44, is an immigrant from Peru who was recently elected to Virginia’s House of Delegates.
The Democratic leaders say Kennedy and Guzman will emphasize that “Democrats are laser-focused on enacting policies to benefit middle-class Americans, not special interests or the wealthiest.”
I for one approve of this. From what I have seen from him before he should be able to give a good strong response.
As long as he is the sole Democrat who actually attends Donnie’s “Farce of the Union”, I’m okay with it.
Yeah, how do you craft a response when no one really knows what Tramp will actually say when he has the chance to address an international audience on live TV? He loves to go off script.
All I can say for sure is that I won’t be watching.
Read: “we know we have a lot of relatively viable 2020 candidates but no clear front-runner, so here’s a presumably-charismatic junior dude so it doesn’t look like our finger is on the scale”
If Kennedy’s response is simply reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, he’ll look far more socratic and patriotic than Hair Furor’s word salad regurgitation could have ever hoped for.