{"id":73397,"date":"2026-05-12T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-democrats-urge-jen-kiggans-to-resign-for-agreeing-with-racist-cotton-picking-remark\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:55:41","slug":"us-democrats-urge-jen-kiggans-to-resign-for-agreeing-with-racist-cotton-picking-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-democrats-urge-jen-kiggans-to-resign-for-agreeing-with-racist-cotton-picking-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"US Democrats urge Jen Kiggans to resign for agreeing with racist \u2018cotton-picking\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican congresswoman says she did not condone radio host\u2019s language<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/12\/donald-trump-china-iran-redistricting-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jen Kiggans, a Republican congresswoman, has faced calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said top US House Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hakeem-jeffries\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, should get his \u201ccotton-picking hands off of Virginia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kiggans, who represents Virginia\u2019s second US House district, has said she was agreeing with the host that Jeffries \u2013 who is the first Black American to lead a party in Congress \u2013 should stay out of Virginia politics. She also said she did not condone the host\u2019s language, which multiple Democrats criticized as racist.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/kiggans-resign-racist-comment-radio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican congresswoman says she did not condone radio host\u2019s language US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Jen Kiggans, a Republican congresswoman, has faced calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said top US House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, should get &#8230; <a title=\"US Democrats urge Jen Kiggans to resign for agreeing with racist \u2018cotton-picking\u2019 remark\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/us-democrats-urge-jen-kiggans-to-resign-for-agreeing-with-racist-cotton-picking-remark\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Democrats urge Jen Kiggans to resign for agreeing with racist \u2018cotton-picking\u2019 remark\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}