Katie Britt denies misleading voters in Biden State of the Union rebuttal - BBC News

The Alabama senator was criticised for citing a years-old sex trafficking case to attack Joe Biden after his State of the Union speech.

16 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Katie Britt used an account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack Biden's border policiesBy George WrightBBC NewsRepublican Katie Britt has defended her use of an account from a sex trafficking victim to attack President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

In a televised response, she used the story to attack his border policies, despite the case taking place in Mexico years before Mr Biden took office.

Fact-checkers pointed out inaccuracies in the Alabama senator's comparison.

But in a Fox News interview on Sunday, Ms Britt insisted she had not misled voters with her claims.

In her response to the president's speech, the Republican invoked the story of a woman who was raped thousands of times in a sex trafficking operation run by drug cartels, starting from when she was 12 years old. Her communications director told The Washington Post that the anecdote was about Karla Jacinto Romero.

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