How will Donald Trump kick off the midterms at the State of the Union address?

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please forget I said anything. So we're going to do a little bit of a state of the union

address previewing. It's happening on Tuesday. If you didn't know, you should set your calendars.

It's going to interrupt your television watching. So you probably don't have to set your

calendars. It'll just assault you.

Typically, the State of the Union kicks off in a midterm year kicks off the midterm elections

on the president's terms. We've had fewer previews about what the president is expected to say,

but we do know what his themes are going to be, according to the early tea leaf reading and reports that

we've seen out from example from Mark Halperin, I was a piece in the in Fox News today,

which is very insidery and quite helpful. The administration wants to talk about, obviously,

the things it has achieved, and it has some of things to really

tout its record on energy and deregulatory policy, the tax code reform bill that passed

last year. Trump has a good story to tell him anyways, but the public isn't really feeling it.

So the president is expected to emphasize affordability using the buzzword that New York City

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