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.
They don’t need a reason, just an excuse.
The sun came up this morning. It’s a clear sign that we need to move to the right.
I was going to make a joke about James Caville seeing his shadow…
But even that neoliberals crypt keeper who a year ago blamed “wokeness” for destroying the Democratic party has been ringing alarm bells for a while that it doesn’t look like Biden can win.
And for the first time in 30 years, the DNC stopped listening to him…
It’s like some fucked up monkey paw thing.
They’ve taken everything that nut job has said as gossipal for decades, and the second he’s right he’s out.