Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to give GOP response to State of Union

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will deliver the official Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of Union Address next week, congressional GOP leaders announced Tuesday.

Party leaders highlighted Reynold's resistance to Covid mandates in Iowa, where she banned school mask mandates and signed a law last year requiring schools to offer in-person learning options even as case rates rose.

 

“She handled Covid by choosing freedom over lockdowns and personal responsibility over mandates — leading to real economic recovery from the pandemic," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement. "She kept kids in school and critical race theory out."

 

When parties are out of power in Washington, they often reach beyond the Beltway for their official response to the president's address, offering lesser-known names a high-profile opportunity to reach millions of Americans in a speech broadcast immediately after the president's.