State of the Union: Biden in full campaign mode
by Linda Feldmann
Mar 08, 2024
3 minutes
Let’s just say it: President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night was a campaign rally.
Amid cheers and chants from fellow Democrats in Congress, a fired-up President Biden took the 2024 race right into American living rooms as he went after his “predecessor” and framed the future in existential terms.
“Freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas,” Mr. Biden said, referring both to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to former President Donald Trump, though not by name. “History is watching.”
The event was classic Biden. He arrived late
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