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James, I had my expectations for the State of the Union were somewhere between minimal and little

modest. The entire exercise really seems kind of passé and President Biden is not an electrifying

or inspiring speaker. I was wrong. It was an electrifying evening, a 10 for Biden. He was energetic,

focused, credibly said, State of the Union is strong, lowest unemployment, more than 50 years,

inflation, ebbing, record number of Americans with health insurance. I mean, with last year's

legislation, there's going to be a trillion dollars in investments ahead, a lot for blue-cover jobs.

And he focused on all the right things ahead, lower healthcare costs, more support for

children and the like and said, billionaires shouldn't be paying a lower tax rate than schoolteachers.

James, you can run on that and he were in America. I mean, I don't know any place where that

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