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.
That’s why he said, “Give me a congress that will work with me.” Its not just the president. You need to get people into office who will do these things.
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Did you forget the Georgia runoffs?
Biden got elected because he claimed he could get Senate republicans to vote with Dems.
After the GA runoffs, we end up with a 50/50 senate with the VP as tiebreaker. And the House.
For two years.
And Biden literally said he couldn’t change anyone’s mind so it would be a waste of time if he tried.
That happened.
Recently.
So, how much does Biden need in 2028?
And why isn’t he out there campaigning for himself and down ballot races?
Manchin and Sinema say, “Hi!”
No change to the fillabster means shit gets stalled.
Elect people who will shitcan the fillabster.
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…