Marsha Blackburn: The Senator Behind a Viral Moment
Showing 7 Marsha Blackburn videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Marsha Blackburn, the Republican senator from Tennessee, is best known in this material for a widely circulated moment during Supreme Court confirmation hearings when she asked nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to define the word woman, a question Jackson declined to answer directly by saying she wasn't a biologist, a response Charlie Kirk cited repeatedly in campus debates as evidence of what he considers a deliberate and telling evasion. Following Charlie Kirk's assassination, Blackburn publicly called for the firing of a Middle Tennessee State University employee who wrote a social media post suggesting Kirk had brought about his own death, and the university confirmed to CNN that the employee was terminated as a result. Commentator Savannah Chrisley referenced Blackburn's widely discussed potential run for Tennessee governor while criticizing a separate private school's handling of Kirk's death, and a later segment featuring Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders similarly discussed Blackburn's gubernatorial campaign and her record on reducing crime, name-checking her alongside fellow Republican officials pursuing similar law-and-order platforms in their own states.