Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Friday showered his Senate colleague Katie Britt with some strange praise for her GOP response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, calling her a “housewife” in multiple interviews.
Britt has been skewered by both Republicans and Democrats for her speech, which sources told The Daily Beast caused a firestorm in GOP circles after she spoke from her kitchen in a cadence more fitting for an SNL skit than a strong rebuttal to Biden.
Tuberville tried to have his colleague’s back in an interview with Newsmax on Friday, remarking that he thought she did “very well,” especially “considering the circumstances.”
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It was his Tuberville’s next comments that have him catching flak, however, as he called Britt, a U.S. senator and lawyer, a “housewife.”
“She’s a mom. She’s a housewife. She’s around people at a young age,” Tuberville said. “And if you just see what the left is doing, they’re going after families.”
Calling Britt a housewife doesn’t appear to have been merely a slip of the tongue. Tuberville tripled down on the statement, calling her a housewife again in interviews with Newsweek and HuffPost.
“She was given the role of a mom, given the mom approach, you know, the housewife,” he said, according to Newsweek. “I thought she did good. I mean, what else are you going to do? She talked about, you know, family and the direction that she would like to see the country go, and I thought she did good.”
HuffPost reported that Tuberville said Britt was “picked as a housewife, not just a senator.”
Britt, 42, has been gaining steam as a potential vice president pick by Trump. Her office did not address Tuberville’s comments on Friday.
