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to President Trump’s State of the Union Address
Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House press secretary from 2017 to 2019
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the youngest US governor, will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
Ms. Sanders, 40, was sworn in as the 47th – and first female – governor of the southern state of Arkansas four weeks ago.
However, she is best known for her tenure as press secretary for former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.
Her speech will follow Mr. Biden’s primetime speech on Tuesday.
The State of the Union has been proclaimed every year since 1790 except in the years of the President’s inauguration, but the history of the opposition’s response is far shorter.
The first reaction came in 1966 after Lyndon Johnson upgraded the annual address from a daytime event to a primetime slot. Guaranteed a much larger audience than originally anticipated, Republicans seized the moment and established a new tradition.
Mr. Biden is one of only four Americans to deliver both the President’s address and the opposition’s response. Forty years ago, he served as a junior senator from Delaware in a 12-member Democratic Party response to Ronald Reagan.
The refutation often comes from young rising stars in the opposition party, and often from outside Washington.
Ms. Sanders is the youngest child of former Arkansas Governor and two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The mother of three had a tumultuous tenure in the White House, during which she frequently clashed with members of the media and faced personal attacks over her appearance.
On Tuesday, she will be speaking from Little Rock, the state capital of Arkansas. She has vowed to contrast her party’s “optimistic vision for the future with the failures of President Biden and the Democrats.”
“What America needs – and what Republicans are offering – is a return to common sense and a commitment to the ideals that made America the land of the free and home of the brave,” she wrote on Twitter last week.
Juan Ciscomani, a newly elected US House lawmaker from Arizona, will also provide a response to President Biden’s State of the Union address, but in Spanish.
Congressman Juan Ciscomani (center) will deliver the Republican response in Spanish
The Spanish reaction, a sign of the growing importance of Latino voters in the US electorate, has been on and off since 2004.
Mr. Ciscomani, 40, was born in Mexico and is the first foreign-born American to be elected to Congress from his state.
He sits as part of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives, a change from Mr. Biden’s first Union state last year, which came under Washington’s unified Democratic control.
“My message will be simple and direct: the American dream is a dream worth fighting for,” Mr Ciscomani said in a statement. “The people of my district in Arizona and Americans across our country want accountability, responsibility and sensitivity to be restored to our nation’s capital.”
During Mr Biden’s tenure, others in his party have attempted to make their voices heard during prime time.
At last year’s State of the Union, lawmakers in the Democratic House of Representatives provided answers on behalf of the Working Families Party (WFP), the Congressional Black Caucus and the No Labels group.
Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (center) will provide the Working Families Party’s response
The WFP, a small political party closely ideologically allied with the Democrats to its left, will again submit a response to the President this year — from Illinois Congresswoman Delia Ramirez.
Ms. Ramirez, 39, was born to a Guatemalan mother who was pregnant with her while crossing the US-Mexico border. She is the first Latina elected to Congress from the Midwest region.
Along with progressive arsonists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar, she is considered a member of the “Squad” in Congress.
“I will set out a vision for how Democrats can win over working-class voters of all races and nationalities by fighting for a government that has the workers’ back,” Ms. Ramirez wrote on Twitter.
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