Biden prepares for his first official state of the union address as president.

Chaos continues in Ukraine as Putin stares down the barrel of a humiliating setback,

and Democrats prepare to unmask Americans just in time for midterms.

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state of the union address tonight. He gave an address to the joint session of Congress shortly after his election in 2021.

But this is his first official state of the union.

And were he an honest man, it would sound like the beginning of Terry Cruz's address in idiocracy.

I know things are bleep right now, but he's not going to say that.

Instead, he's going to talk about how strong the union is because his party needs some sort, some sort of reset here. If they don't get a reset,

they are in such serious trouble that it is beyond reckoning for them. I believe 31 Democrats have

said that they're not running. 31. And that number is going to go up before November in the House

of Representatives because the polling is just that bad.

And here's the thing. Americans know why they are not voting for the Democrats.

So Kamala Harris had probably an all-time gaffe yesterday. She's great at this. She's just spectacular.

So, I mean, first, Jill Biden actually introduced her as president of the United States and her husband is sitting right there.

Joe's sitting right there.

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