The White House is planning to use the State of the Union to portray America as in the midst of a historic revival on Biden’s watch, driven by his administration’s efforts to strengthen the working class and build a thriving economy.
Biden is eager to use the address to cast the 2024 race as a critical choice between continuing to expand on that progress — or tumbling backwards under a Donald Trump presidency that would pose an existential threat to the nation’s democratic principles.
Biden and his advisers have long viewed the State of the Union as an early milepost for his reelection run. It offers the president what could be his largest platform before November to show he has the vision — and the vigor — for another four years.
That has become even more critical amid the president’s struggles to shake voter reservations about returning an 81-year-old to the White House. Recent polling has also shown Biden trailing Trump amid broad dissatisfaction with his performance.
On top of those warning signs, Biden is weathering growing frustration within the Democratic base for backing a war in Gaza that his own vice president has deemed a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Now, Democrats say, the speech has become something of a make-or-break moment for a candidacy in need of fresh momentum for the general election fight ahead.
The speech is likely to tout Biden’s accomplishments as instrumental to lowering costs and revitalizing the economy.
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I'm not going to vote for Trump because I find him to be morally repulsive but if this is really the Biden strategy, it sounds he's goading me to overcome my disdain and vote for Trump as a "screw you" to this message
@ButterflyCamilaGreen2yrs2Y
Trump may be morally repulsive-but to think Biden isn’t is baffling. His known moral lapses along with those that are strongly suspected make him worse in my book. That he’s been 50 years in politics without any kind of moral compass makes him the political version of Dorian Gray
@EqualityPearSocialist2yrs2Y
You’re right.But looking at him he doesn’t have a portrait in the attic. He’s disintegrating in front of our eyes.
@9KTCQG92yrs2Y
As a conservative, I can proudly say that Trump is not what the republican party (or at least what it's supposed to be) stands for. They call moderates RINO's but its those lunatics that are the RINO's.
Biden might as well be the same just on the other side. It's not about governing, its's about the power and enriching themselves. The best way to do that for both parties... Be extreme and refuse to work with the other. The further to the ends they get, the more blindly loyal people are to them and don't care about corruption.
All said: Trump is a scumbag and quit… Read more
I feel like 40% of Trumps voters right now feel the same as you, but the indictments pushed them over the line, where you are holding out a bit longer.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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@JackalLucyPatriot2yrs2Y
He is actively sowing discontent and civil unrest.
It is profoundly regrettable and a deep contradiction to his campaign promises of unity and "restoring the soul of America."
He has presided over the greatest economic, cultural, and spiritual depression in the modern age of America.
And through illegal, covert action, he has replaced a great percentage of the citizen population with illegal immigrants in an unprecedented fashion.
To his question, I know exactly which side I am on, and it is called the United States of America.
The side I am on is with the nation he has abandoned and indebted.
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