What occurred?
President Joe Biden delivered an lively and political State of the Union speech Thursday night time, criticizing his unnamed “predecessor” and congressional Republicans, defending democracy and reproductive rights, touting the economic system, and asserting the development of a pier to get extra help to Palestinians in Gaza.
Who mentioned what?
“I do know I’ll not seem like it, however I have been round some time,” Biden joked. “My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy” and the core American values of “honesty, decency, dignity, equality.” Some “different individuals my age” preach “resentment, revenge and retribution,” he mentioned, slyly poking at GOP challenger Donald Trump, “however you possibly can’t lead America with historical concepts” like that. “No person’s gonna discuss cognitive impairment now,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) advised Biden after the 68-minute speech. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), within the Republican rebuttal, known as Biden a “dithering and diminished chief.”
“Jacked-Up Joe” spent “many of the night time shouting” and “dashing by his speech,” Sean Hannity mentioned on Fox Information. “If Republicans are lowered to complaining he yelled, that is a win,” New York Journal’s Jonathan Chait mentioned. “It was a marketing campaign speech however a rattling good one.” “If I have been a Democrat who’d been in a panic for 3 weeks, proper now I would be feeling lots higher,” mentioned Commentary’s John Podhoretz.
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What subsequent?
Biden and his crew will “fan out” beginning Friday “to amplify his message and promote his agenda with visits to key battleground states,” The New York Occasions mentioned.
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