Mike Johnson told Katie Britt ‘it’ll be fine’ before State of the Union rebuttal

Alabama senator pleased Scarlett Johansson parodied her much-mocked Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union address

Katie Britt, the Alabama senator who delivered a much-mocked State of the Union response last week, rued the “irony” of being told by the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, that “it’ll be fine” before giving her disastrous speech.

Speaking to the hard-right Texas senator Ted Cruz, on his Verdict with Ted Cruz podcast, Britt said Johnson told her: “People are going to tell you horror stories about all of these things that happen and people’s career being blown up over it.’