{"id":866,"date":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:45:06","slug":"us-democrats-urge-jen-kiggans-to-resign-for-agreeing-with-racist-cotton-picking-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=866","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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=866\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}