During a Tuesday interview with iHeart Radio’s “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” GOP U.S. Senate nominee Katie Britt declared parents will play a lead role in Republicans’ election night success.
When asked about her dubbing 2022 as the “Year of the Parent,” Britt proclaimed that those with school-aged children were becoming politically active due to the Biden administration’s actions on numerous fronts.
“So, when you look across the nation, we have parents getting off the sidelines,” said Britt. “It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a school board election or all the way to the United States Senate, because we see the country that our children are growing up in and we know the country that we grew up in. And honestly, while it’s not too far apart, it right now seems worlds and worlds away.”
“And we believe if our generation if parents don’t step up and fight for our children, then we don’t know what’s going to be left for our kids to fight for. And we are seeing this on every single front. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the border. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about crime within our communities.
“If you’re talking about education, we see the real effects on the day to day lives of our children and parents are saying enough is enough.”
Interview begins around 21:00 minutes into podcast episode:
Travis lamented government-instituted COVID-19 regulations which he asserted had been detrimental to individual liberty and public school education. He then asked Britt if the liberal policies that were handed down during the pandemic would serve to usher a “red wave election.”
In response, Brittblasted mandatory masking of children and said the interests of students had been “put to the back side for some type of liberal ideology.”
“It is going to be a red wave election and it is because of what you just said,” said Britt. “I mean, during the pandemic, we saw Democrats advocate to keep our children locked out of the classroom. We as parents knew what that was doing to our kids, not only the educational loss that they would have. And we’ve seen that. Right?
“You look at the NAEP scores across the nation and everyone is digging into those as we speak. And on average, we are down five points in reading and we’re down eight points in math.
“[W]e’ve done a great disservice and we’re going to see the effects of it for years and years to come.”
When asked why the GOP has found success in forming “the broadest coalition” it had ever seen, Britt, a 40-year-old mother of two school-aged children, said Republicans represented the interests of parents and “hard-working Americans.”
“I think because people realize we are the party of parents. You know, we are the party of hard-working Americans,” she said. “We look at our values, this party’s values: faith, family, freedom and opportunity. And for the very first time ever, we are seeing that we may leave our children with less freedom and less opportunity than we had.
“And make no mistake, when the government takes one of your freedoms, they’re never giving it back. And so standing up and saying, enough is enough.”
Britt will face Democrat Will Boyd in the Nov. 8 general election for the seat held by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa).
Dylan Smith is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @DylanSmithAL
