Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) expressed her hope that Donald Trump could end the crisis at the border if elected president in 2024.
Britt appeared on Kudlow to explain her endorsement of Trump. The first-term senator endorsed the former president Wednesday before the fourth Republican debate, in which Trump did not participate. Instead, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy duked it out onstage, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson did not qualify for the debate.
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Britt’s endorsement came out of a concern for border security, she said. The senator visited the southern border three times during her first two months in office despite Alabama’s lack of proximity to it.
“I heard about victims being raped, I heard about children being recycled, men becoming indentured servants,” Britt said of her visits. “We know those people aren’t living an American dream, they’re living an American nightmare.”
Britt blasted the Biden administration for seeming unaware of the dangers of what she referred to as an open border because “we know that the Biden administration has no idea who’s coming over the border.”
“We know Donald Trump will secure the border,” Britt said. “He will put back in the remain in Mexico policy. He will make sure that we finish building physical barriers, build the wall, put up technological barriers that will keep our country safe.
“At a time where we have more fentanyl deaths than ever, the leading cause of death between the ages of 18 to 45, I, for one, am sick of sitting across of moms and dads who have lost their loved ones to fentanyl poisoning,” Britt went on. “We know that President Trump will put an end to this, and he will do it as he said on day one.”
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Trump endorsed Britt ahead of her first senatorial election in 2022, which she won handily.
The former president has maintained a massive lead in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination despite the various indictments against him, from mishandling classified documents to subverting the 2020 presidential election. He has pleaded not guilty to all 91 felony charges against him.
