{"id":169278,"date":"2024-03-08T10:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=169278"},"modified":"2024-03-08T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:52:12","slug":"the-public-record-marjorie-taylor-greene-challenges-joe-biden-at-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=169278","title":{"rendered":"The Public Record: Marjorie Taylor Greene Challenges Joe Biden at State of The Union"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The News:<\/strong> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made headlines during President Joe Biden&#8217;s State of the Union address by donning a MAGA hat, a red coat, and a white t-shirt that said &#8220;Say Her Name: Laken Riley&#8221; on it. The spectacle of her appearance not only challenged House decorum, but the hat was a violation of House rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Players: <\/strong>Marjorie Taylor Greeen of Georgia, who represents Northwest Georgia and President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Stage:<\/strong> The State of The Union Address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Challenge: <\/strong>Greene&#8217;s actions and attire aimed to confront Biden publicly on border security policies, specifically referencing the tragic murder of Laken Riley, a point of contention in the immigration debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenge Accepted, Sort Of:<\/strong> Biden accepted Greene&#8217;s Challenge and held up a &#8220;Say Her Name&#8221; button that Greene had been handing out earlier. Biden made reference to Riley, but didn&#8217;t quite say her name, instead calling her Lincoln Riley. However, his words about her showed that he knew the details of Riley&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Aftermath:<\/strong> In the aftermath, both Republicans and Democrats claimed a political victory for the moment in the speech. Republicans got to say that Biden didn&#8217;t say her name because he got her name wrong, and Democrats got to say he faced down Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s challenge head on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conversation Starters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Did the fiery exchange benefit Democracy or was it a sideshow?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you like seeing elected officials conduct themselves in this manner, or would you prefer more decorum?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made headlines during President Joe Biden&#8217;s State of the Union address by donning a MAGA hat, a red coat, and a white t-shirt that said &#8220;Say Her Name: Laken Riley&#8221; on it. The spectacle of her appearance not only challenged House decorum, but the hat was a violation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":169281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[8611,15071,8685,13060],"class_list":["post-169278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-public-record","tag-joe-biden","tag-laken-riley","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-state-of-the-union","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}