For Immediate Release
March 8, 2024
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Fox News’ America’s Newsroomto recap last night’s State of the Union and discuss President Biden’s ongoing border crisis.
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Below are excerpts from the interview:
On President Biden mentioning Laken Riley and the border crisis:
“It was one of the times he apparently went off the teleprompter and said the obvious truth, and we’re asking the same question. It is a scourge across the country. This is a humanitarian catastrophe, not just because of the people that are being affected, those who are being trafficked into the country.
“But now because we have Laken Riley-type events all around the country. We had one in Louisiana just two days, I think it was two days after Laken’s brutal murder. We had a violent rape of a 14 year old girl in South Louisiana. This is happening in communities, by an illegal migrant who’s been released in the country and these are people that they know are criminals.
“We passed the Laken Riley Act on the floor just a few hours before the President’s of the State of the Union. 170 Democrats voted against it. And it simply said that ICE would actually have to detain and put on a path to deportation people who are dangerous. I can’t believe they voted against that.”
On President Biden’s performance:
“I think anybody can read a teleprompter and I’m sure he practiced it 100 times before he went to the floor, and he even mumbled through parts of it and skipped parts of it. I think he’s a very weak president. I think everybody in America knows that. About 73% of the people in the latest poll, Americans, think that country is headed in the wrong direction.
“And the State of the Union is in decline, very sadly. It pains us to say so but decline in the economy and our sovereignty with the open border, the security of our streets and of course, our stature on the world stage. We cannot have four more years of this. We will lose the Republic if Joe Biden is reelected.”
On partisanship:
“It was it was such a bad look. I mean, normally a State of the Union at least has some segments that are unifying, you know, where everyone can join in and applaud the country and applaud America’s greatness. None of that last night.
“It was it was a hyper partisan attack speech. It was a campaign speech. It really was. And a pretty vitriolic one at that. Calling out, you know, President Trump, almost by name, his predecessor, he said that 13 times. It was just so over the top and so inappropriate, and it’s not what the country needs.”
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