Democratic leaders have urged their members not to interrupt President Trump during next week’s State of the Union address.
According to areport from Axios, the party is preparing a slate of separate responses from different factions as part of a strategy that will result in several competing messages on the same night.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver the official Democratic rebuttal, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced.
The opposition party has traditionally offered a formal response to the president’s address since the early 1980s.
But that will not be the only Democratic rebuttal.
California Sen. Alex Padilla is set to deliver a Spanish-language response, which will presumably try and portray Hispanics as a left-wing monolith fighting Trump’s immigration policies.
Padilla drew national attention last year after he was removed from a Homeland Security press conference while attempting to question officials about mass deportations.
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In announcing his role, Jeffries said Padilla has “consistently fought back and proven Democrats will not bend the knee to this out-of-control administration.”
Source: The Gateway Pundit
