Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya speculated on Tuesday why Senate Democrats failed to break a filibuster and express support for keeping biological males out of women’s and girls’ sports.
To break the filibuster, no Senate Democrat voted for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
Republicans needed 60 votes, but only got 51. On the same day, Minnesota House members voted against the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act. Every Democratic lawmaker in the state voted against the bill.
Tafoya discussed the political backlash during an interview on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.”
“Part of me is starting to think they didn’t want to give the president a ‘W’ the day before he is going to address Congress tonight, that joint session of Congress,” Tafoya reported to Dakich. “And so they all got together and said, ‘We can’t do this. We can’t let him win, so let’s just vote no.’ And they stay together, man. “They stick together.”
According to OutKick, Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Liish Kozlowski compared the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act to “state-sanctioned bullying and genocide” during a debate on the legislation Monday.
Hannah Edwards, executive director of Transforming Families, used the same language in a news release from Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke in January, following Trump’s executive order targeting federal funding for transgender healthcare.
“It’s ridiculous, and I’m trying to get my head around, like do people really buy into this, that this is some sort of trans genocide because boys shouldn’t play in girls sports?” Tafoya spoke. “It doesn’t make sense. Minnesota has some extremely radical Democrats. So that’s what we’re dealing with.
“I’m not sure how the average person receives that language. If I were the average person, I would think that person is a lunatic for suggesting that. “I don’t understand how these people keep getting elected.”
