Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread.
This is probably one of the most important speeches Biden can give this year. He has to come across as “Present”, not just “President”.
This will set the tone for the campaign the rest of the year and will be second only to the Democratic Convention speech in August for visibility.
Watch it live here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
Or through your favorite news source.
The Republican response will be delivered by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama:
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236338784/katie-britt-alabama-republican-biden-state-of-the-union
Very good speech!
Full transcript is here:
https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/
Republican response from Katie Britt here:
I encourage you to watch the video and not just read the transcript. Reading it doesn’t carry just how breathless and borderline weepy her delivery is.
You think the result would be different with 52 Ds?
There’s a lot more people that will vote against progress in office. But they’re not all going to say it if they don’t have to.
But the point is Biden said he could work with a Republican majority. And wouldn’t try to change Manchin and Sinemas minds when they’re his own party.
He literally made statements that he couldn’t so he wouldn’t try.
We do that by replacing incumbents. We need primaries to do that, and we have to fight against a shit ton of donor money, but we can do it.
As long as we keep having primaries. NH is already out of that…