President Joe Biden issued a statement following the deaths of Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and two staffers who were involved in a head-on crash in Indiana on Wednesday afternoon.
Walorski was killed in an auto accident on state Route 19 near South Bend, Indiana. Her communications director, Emma Thomson, and her district office director, Zachary Potts, also died in the accident, officials said.
“Jill and I are shocked and saddened by the death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski of Indiana along with two members of her staff in a car accident today in Indiana,” Biden said in a White House statement. “Born in her beloved South Bend as the daughter of a meat-cutter and firefighter, she spent a lifetime serving the community that she grew up in—as a journalist, a nonprofit director, a state legislator, and eventually as a Member of Congress for the past nine and half years.”…