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.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It was entertaining but I don’t care if it was “good” or not. These are always empty promises. He’ll get a boost in the polls for a few days, the media will say he was “presidential”, and the American people will still be struggling to keep a roof over their head and afford groceries.
But hey, the Blue team owned the Red team for a night! Zing!
I genuinely am curious where you’re living that everyone’s having a hard time putting a roof over their head. The stats simply don’t match this narrative in the overwhelming majority of areas in the US.
This outrageous hyperbole that you repeat day-in and day-out is just unproductive and, quite frankly, insulting to anyone wanting meaningful political discussion here.
Commenting the same things over and over on a political forum isn’t going to change anything.
I’m in the Los Angeles area. Studios are going for $2,400+