From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lerer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Friday, March 8th.

So you've probably got the basic state of the union headline by now, right?

Joe Biden came to fight last night, to juice the enthusiasm

of the Democratic Party base, to discredit Donald Trump to swing voters, and to show that he's

not too old to be riled up and feisty as hell. He also made it for you new policy proposals,

which could and should be getting more attention, and we'll get to those.

But about his tone, it struck me that it wasn't just about looking angry and alert.

There was a humor piece to it, too.

And I want to play a couple of examples.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill is not usually something that people get passionate about, right, or even remember very much.

But here's how he got a laugh and made a point about Republicans being happy to use the money

from the bill in their districts.

Thanks to our bipartisan infrastructure law, 46,000 new projects have announced all across your communities.

And by the way,

I noticed some of you

strongly voted against it

are there cheering on

that money coming out.

I like it.

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