Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melbert. President Biden is taking the fight to DeSantis's turf today.

We also tonight have Neil DeGrasse Tyson joining me later in the hour for some wild tech breakthroughs.

I'm excited to see what he's going to explain about them. But our top story right now is President Biden's victory lap.

Joe Biden finding his message from the state of the union is

landing, and he's turning the tables on that safety net fight, basically going to the Trump-de-Santis

home turf of Florida to double down. Now, we all know, Taylor Swift ironically suggested once

that she was a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

Well, today Biden told Republicans why he's going to be their nightmare, period.

I know that a lot of Republicans, their dream is to cut Social Security Medicare.

Well, let me say this. If that's your dream, I'm your nightmare.

There it is.

Call it some bad blood between the parties there.

Biden drawing a little bit of applause and some laughter

for what has become, if you're monitoring this,

almost a celebratory mood among some Democrats this week. They think that something rare actually

occurred at a State of the Union address, which is a notoriously long and somewhat contrived

or boring night, even if important. They say that there was an actual policy breakthrough in

Biden's favor, that he did publicly draw Republicans in public, in front of the

nation in the most high-profile speech of the year to affirm Social Security. And while Donald

Trump is clawing his way back onto social media, candidate Trump may be finding somewhat of an

altered terrain. Let me explain, because this is part of the

politics tonight. Donald Trump has been raising less money online. And now he's finding that

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