Here's Why Biden's Unscripted Moment Freaked Out Democrats

President Joe Biden finally referenced Laken Riley's name, sort of, during Thursday's State of the Union address. He referred to her as "Lincoln Riley," acknowledging she was "an innocent young woman who was killed, by an illegal, that's right!" The accused killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, is here illegally from Venezuela. The official White House transcript indicates that Riley wasn't mentioned in the prepared remarks. We can thus thank Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for Biden acknowledging that Riley "was killed by an illegal." Yet Democratic members and other liberals went nuts that the president would dare to use that term. Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was among them. During her appearance on CNN right after the speech, she insisted Biden "should have said undocumented," adding, "We usually say undocumented." Her response came as Dana Bash pointed out she wasn't even asking what Pelosi thought about the term the president used.

There were those even more enthusiastically outraged at Biden, including and especially over social media. Many of them are members of Congress or state legislatures. (…)

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