Shannon Sharpe fears that First Lady Jill Biden’s invitation for the losing Iowa women’s basketball team to join champions LSU at the White House could cost her husband Joe’s reelection in 2024.
As Breitbart News reported on Monday, the first lady let her desire to have both teams visit the White House known while speaking at the Colorado state capital in Denver, where she praised both teams.
“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” she said. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”
In response, LSU star Angel Reese called the statement “A Joke” on Twitter.
A JOKE. https://t.co/9SiOKQNqbj
— Angel Reese (@Reese10Angel) April 3, 2023
During an episode of the show Undisputed, Sharpe said that Jill Biden’s invitation could potentially turn enough black voters from turning away from the president due to Iowa being a mostly white team.
“Did you forget who helped put your husband in the White House? You gonna find out a very serious, hard lesson in ’24,” Sharpe said. “[Joe] will be like a Kentucky or Duke freshman. You’ll be one-and-done.”
Shannon Sharpe goes off on Jill Biden for wanting to invite Iowa and LSU to the White House pic.twitter.com/Z6BvZmmc1P
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 4, 2023
Jill Biden has a history of turning off minority voters, such as when she said the American Hispanic community is “as unique as breakfast tacos.”
“The diversity of this community — as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio — is your strength,” Biden said.
Thank you Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D. for clarifying that Democrats think Hispanics are “unique” like tacos.
However, I think you’re confused. We Texans love our bodegas.
Bowguhdahs must be where Joe’s Latinx puppet Henry Cuellar shops. https://t.co/VM68QqZTqq
— Cassy Garcia (@CasandraLGarcia) July 11, 2022
The first lady apologized after an intense backlash, with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists saying in a statement that Biden’s comment demonstrated “a lack of cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the diversity of Latinos in the region.”
“We are not tacos,” the statement said.
“The First Lady apologizes that her words conveyed anything but pure admiration and love for the Latino community,” her spokesperson, Michael LaRosa, said in a tweet.