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.
He’s had a couple of mis-speaks but that’s because he’s going too fast (!)
His stutter and mispeaks are not off-putting to me at all. He is obviously mentally fit, this isn’t how someone with mental deficiencies sounds.
Yep. Watching this, anyone who claims he’s mentally unfit is a fucking liar, and you can immediately dismiss anything else they have to say.
Look he’s old. I completely agree it’s a concern for >70% of Americans. Both are geriatrics with clear issues.
But one is morally sound. The other is not. One has smart cabinet members and advisors. The other has his fucking kids in a blatant act of nepotism and crooks.
Biden has also had a stutter his whole life. It’s not new.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/joe-biden-stutter/index.html
His pacing is way off and he’s rushing. Not waiting for the applause to finish.
He’s absolutely killing it, and you know it.
Congratulations, he can read empty promises that multiple speech writers wrote for him on a teleprompter.
Better than just stealing the speech from the previous guys wife.
Yup, because he knows slow or paced = “old”.