When Debuts Flop: Katie Britt Is the Latest in a Long Line of Botched Opening Acts
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Her delivery from an oddly empty kitchen was stilted and awkwardly strident. She spoke in apocalyptic terms...used a misleading account of sex trafficking to criticize border policies, falsely implying that it had taken place in the United States under Mr. Biden.
Her story recalls that of Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida, a member of the 1980 class that swept Republicans into the Senate majority on Ronald Reagan's coattails. Trying to quickly establish her conservative bona fides, Ms. Hawkins arranged a lunch in 1981 to promote her first big legislative initiative: a criminal crackdown on food stamp fraud.
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