The left is still lashing out over the Virginia Supreme Court trashing their illegal gerrymander and, like any animal that's backed into a corner, they are just thrashing wildly with tooth and claw at any possible target.
The latest Republican the left is trying to cancel is Virginia Representative Jen Kiggans (VA-02) after she appeared on a radio program yesterday and agreed with the host that Hakeem Jeffries should keep his nose -- and his miniature baseball bat -- out of Virginia politics.
What makes this attempt to shame a conservative even more hilarious than most is that they are trying to force Kiggans to resign over a comment she didn't even make.
Here is the clip that spawned the latest outrage:
GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans says she agrees that Hakeem Jeffries has “cotton-picking hands”
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) May 11, 2026
“Get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” pic.twitter.com/3Uu6CU01LU
Oh no! Radio host Rich Herrera said the words 'cotton-pickin''! And Kiggans laughed and agreed that Jeffries should only meddle in Virginia if he's interested in moving here.
Clearly, she's a 'white supremacist' and has to resign immediately!
First they gutted the Voting Rights Act.
— Katherine Clark (@TeamKClark) May 11, 2026
Now they are using brazenly racist language to attack Black leaders.@JenKiggans should immediately apologize and resign. https://t.co/F3iPYBZPSi
HAHAHAHAHA.
Yeah, no. Not gonna' happen.
Least of all when the demand to resign comes from Katherine Clark, the Democratic Whip from gerrymandered Massachusetts who doesn't seem to understand that Virginia and Florida have entirely different laws and state constitutions.
Clark wasn't alone, though. Many other usual suspects tried to capitalize on the hysteria.
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Chair @RepEspaillat: Rep. Jen Kiggans’ racist comments are offensive, unacceptable, and deeply disturbing. She should apologize and resign. Bigotry has no place in our Democracy or our public discourse.
— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@HispanicCaucus) May 12, 2026
Someone probably needs to break the bad news to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that Kiggans actually did not utter any racist comments.
The racist comments proudly endorsed today by Jen Kiggans warning House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to ‘Get your cotton-picking hands off of Virginia’ are disgusting and beneath any elected official. I grew up in the South. I know what these racist dog whistles mean.
— Elaine Luria (@ElaineLuria) May 11, 2026
'Dog whistle. Sure.
This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Luria is a FORMER Representative and wants Kiggans' seat, would it?
Naturally, the leftist media tried to get in on it as well. (Dare we say that they 'pounced'?)
Republican Representative Jen Kiggans faced calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said Democratic lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries should get his ‘cotton-picking hands off of Virginia’ https://t.co/gBMDS5ZRRH
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 12, 2026
A two-term Republican congresswoman is shrugging off pressure to step down after she audibly endorsed a radio host’s racially loaded jab. https://t.co/UIgL26v14Y
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 12, 2026
Uh-oh. She's 'shrugging off pressure.'
Maybe that's because the 'pressure' is coming from absolutely dishonest actors who don't really care about the blatant racism from their team; they only try to invent racism out of whole cloth and use it as a weapon against Republicans.
Biden to black people: If you don't vote for me, you ain't black. *crickets*
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 12, 2026
Jen Kiggans not scolding the host interviewing her for telling Jeffries to keep his 'cotton-picking hands off our elections.'
REEEEEE ARGLE TOLD YOU THEY WERE RACISTS REEE!
Morons. All of them.
Say, is that the same Joe Biden who once complained about integrated schools being a 'racial jungle'? The same Biden who called Barack Obama a 'clean and articulate' black man?
Yep. And we're pretty sure it's the same Biden whom Democrats and these same media lackeys all voted for in 2020.
Seriously, Jen Kiggans… pic.twitter.com/qnKicdIyda
— NOVA Campaigns (@NoVA_Campaigns) May 12, 2026
Oops.
Why didn't the left demand that Ralph Northam and his KKK robes resign?
Former Lieutenant Governor candidate John Reid summed up the ridiculousness of the latest leftist manufactured conniption.
lol oh please.@JenKiggans isn’t even the person who uttered the “cotton pickin” phrase you’re SUPPOSEDLY freaked out about.
— John Reid - The Reid Revolution (@ReidRevolution) May 12, 2026
This is more totally absurd non stop FAKE racial hysteria courtesy of a clear Democrat front group.
And of course the local TV stations all fall for… pic.twitter.com/G5IhnOPAjQ
... fall for it and actively participate in the stupidity.
Try again Dems… maybe after you finally deal with blackface Governor Northam, and trashing and voting against the first black woman ever running for Governor, slandering and essentially lynching your own black Lt Gov seven years ago, and now your black AG threatening to murder his opponents and their children.
Dems are such hypocrites it would be amusing to watch…. if this nasty fake hysteria wasn’t so harmful to innocent people of all races.
Ka ... BOOM!
Virginia really should have elected that man last fall.
And we appreciate Reid prefacing the freak out with the word 'SUPPOSEDLY.' Because the left has played this game for far too long for anyone to think that their outrage is genuine.
It is not. It's 'nasty fake hysteria,' as Reid so accurately stated.
For her part, Kiggans clarified today that she has no intention of stepping down and no amount of gaslighting from the left will change her mind.
This is precisely what's wrong with Democrats. Every lie and distortion is intended to distract from getting their hats handed to them and the Virginia Supreme Court's clear message: stop trying to rig our elections.
— Jen Kiggans (@JenKiggans) May 11, 2026
The radio host should not have used that language and I do not…
... -and did not - condone it. It was obvious to anyone listening that I was agreeing Hakeem Jefferies should stay out of Virginia.
Democrats are trying to destroy Virginia’s court because they disagree with it. THAT is the real danger to our country.
Well said. Though we don't even think she should have even bothered with the concession that she doesn't condone the phrase.
It is a perfectly innocent colloquialism that has been used in the South for generations. Even Bugs Bunny used to say it, for crying out loud. And it is one of countless expressions that the left has tried to weaponize in recent decades.
But if the left thinks that this latest ginned-up controversy is going to force Kiggans out or sway ANY public opinion against her, we've got another long-standing Southern colloquialism they should become familiar with:
'Bless your heart.'
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