Sen. Katie Britt slams Kamala Harris as ‘last person who should be entrusted with our nation’s future’

As national Democrats began lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris following President Joe Biden’s decision to suspend his re-election campaign, Alabama Sen. Katie Britt Sunday blasted Harris for her record with the administration.

“Changing the president in this case isn’t going to change the policies,” Britt told AL.com Sunday afternoon. “Biden and Harris’ policies over the last four years have truly made us weaker and more vulnerable at every turn.”

In a post on social media platform X, Britt called Harris “even more radical” than Biden on border and immigration policies.

“This administration’s ‘border czar’ is the last person who should be entrusted with our nation’s future,” Britt stated.

Britt’s senatorial colleague Tommy Tuberville earlier called on Biden to resign immediately, saying he “was never mentally fit to be President.”

Tuberville’s comments echoed those made earlier by former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance.

Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election.

In an interview, Britt said the narrative on Biden changed due to his performance in the June 27 televised debate against former President Donald Trump, when Biden was criticized for his slow responses. Britt said “the entire country has been in a bit of chaos since the debate, and that lies solely at the feet of Joe Biden, his advisors and his family.”

“To see the President of the United States in the way he was, I think, was unsettling not only for American but our allies across the world,” Britt said. “He wasn’t just going to be the Democratic nominee, he is our current commander-in-chief. The weakness he has exhibited throughout his presidency culminated in that evening.”

Britt echoed the call of other Republicans, that Biden dropping out of the campaign shows he is not capable of serving the rest of his presidential term. He cited the report in February from Special Counsel Robert Hur, who said Biden might present himself in a courtroom as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

“If he’s not capable of sitting in a courtroom, he’s not capable of sitting in the Situation Room,” she said. “He’s shown consistently he’s not capable.”

Making the same case as her post on X, Britt said Harris had proven as “border czar” that she could not handle the job. Biden in 2021 put Harris in charge of coordinating diplomatic relationships to address the “root causes” of migration. Under the Biden Administration, she said, the number of border crossings is the highest in history, and the number of got-aways - migrants who are detected by cameras and sensors crossing into the U.S. illegally, but not taken into custody - was 1.9 million.

“She was in the captain’s seat and chose to do nothing,” Britt said. “If that’s the kind of leadership she is going to provide the American people, that’s all anybody needs to know.”

Britt also spoke about Americans coping with a dizzying set of stories over the last week, from the assassination attempt on Trump to Biden’s bowing out. She said Americans have had “really difficult times” before and there is “grit” in everyone.

“We are all Americans,” she said. “The most important thing is not whether you are a Democrat or Republican, but we are Americans. After what we’ve seen with the assassination attempt, and now, it’s important that we remember we don’t have to agree with someone to show respect. Our democracy was founded on people being able to express different ideas and opinions and figuring out a path forward. We may disagree with someone’s policy and posture, but it doesn’t mean we have to denigrate them as people.”