Our latest book is titled Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics. The 2024 race has begun. The nomination phase has effectively ended. With Super Tuesday, the withdrawal of Nikki Haley, and the State of the Union, the general election campaign has begun. Katie Britt's SOTU response has become a national laughingstock.
Ken Bensinger at NYT:New #FactChecker --> Katie Britt’s false linkage of a sex-trafficking case to Joe Biden (h/t Jonathan Katz) https://t.co/rp7UdmSwHQ
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 9, 2024
Ms. Jacinto, who spoke with the Times Saturday from Mexico, said she had not been informed ahead of time that Ms. Britt would be discussing her in the speech and only learned about it after a video pointing out the deceptive framing of the senator’s speech was posted by the independent journalist Jonathan Katz on TikTok on Friday.
“I only found out via social media,” said Ms. Jacinto, who continues to speak frequently about human trafficking and who is supported by a U.S.-based nonprofit, Reintegra, that provides educational grants to victims of sex trafficking in Latin America. “I thought it was very strange.”
She said she preferred to keep politics out of the question of human trafficking. “I am involved in the fight to stop trafficking and I don’t think it should be political,” she said. “The work I do is not a game.”
