Who is Katie Britt, the Republican set to deliver response to Biden’s State of the Union address?

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The youngest Republican woman to serve in the US Senate will deliver the response to President Biden’s State of the Union tackle subsequent week.

Alabama Senator Katie Britt is set to give the remarks – a rebuttal speech to the president’s tackle made by the opposing occasion – on 7 March, which she has promised might be a “candid discussion about the future of our nation”.

At 42 years outdated, Ms Britt is the youngest Republican lady to ever serve in the US Senate, and the second youngest ever, following Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, who was elected in 1999 at the age of 38.

Her journey to Congress started in June 2021 when she introduced her candidacy for the 2022 Senate election in Alabama – having by no means beforehand run for public workplace.

Ms Britt publicly aligned herself with Donald Trump, although regardless of alleging there might have been “fraud” throughout the 2020 election, has by no means claimed that it was “stolen”, as the former president has accomplished constantly since he left workplace.

Mr Trump formally endorsed Britt on 10 June 2022, calling her a “fearless America First warrior,” and he or she gained the basic election on 8 November.

Ms Britt took workplace as a consultant of Alabama’s 118th district on 3 January 2023, making her the first lady elected a US senator from the state.

According to her web site, she is an advocate of rising “good-paying jobs and opportunity for all Alabamians while standing up for small and rural businesses” in addition to a robust perception “that no child’s zip code should determine their opportunity in life”.

A practising legal professional, Ms Britt graduated from the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Law. She beforehand served as the chief of employees to Alabama’s then-senior US Senator and has served on quite a few boards and committees.

Following the announcement of her tackle, she wrote on X: “I am truly honored and grateful for the opportunity to speak directly to my fellow Americans on March 7.

“We’ll have a candid conversation about the future of our nation—and I’ll outline the Republican vision to secure the American Dream for generations to come.”

The follow of offering a response to the State of the Union tackle started in 1966 when Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and Representative Gerald Ford provided a televised response to the tackle by Democratic president Lyndon Johnson

Four presidents have given each a State of the Union tackle and an opposition response, together with Ford, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden.