Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya theorized Tuesday why Senate Democrats failed to break a filibuster and express support for keeping biological males out of women’s and girls sports.
No Senate Democrat voted in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act to break a filibuster.
Republicans needed 60 votes but only received 51. On the same day, in Minnesota, House lawmakers there voted against the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act. Each Democratic lawmaker in the state voted against the legislation.
Michele Tafoya, when she worked for NBC Sports, after a game between the New Orleans Saints and the Buffalo Bills at the Caesars Superdome. (Chuck Cook/USA Today Sports)
Tafoya gave her thoughts on the political pushback in 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 told Dakich. “And so they all just — and, seriously, politicians collude — and they all got together and said, ‘We can’t do this. We can’t give him this win, so let’s just vote no.’ And they stick together, man. They stick together.”
Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Liish Kozlowski likened the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act to “state-sanctioned bullying and genocide” during a debate about the legislation Monday, according to OutKick.
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It’s the same type of language Hannah Edwards, executive director of Transforming Families, used in a news release from Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Leigh Finke in January after Trump signed an executive order targeting federal funding of 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 said. “It makes no sense. We have some pretty radical Democrats here in Minnesota, I mean, like really radical. And so that’s what we’re dealing with.
Longtime sports journalist Michele Tafoya spoke to OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.” (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
“I don’t know how that language is received by the average person. If I’m considered the average person, I think that person’s a lunatic suggesting that. I don’t know how these people keep getting elected.”
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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.
