President Biden’s Pugnacious State of the Union

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The President delivers a very political address aimed at convincing voters that he isn't too old to beat Donald Trump or too weak to govern, if only Republicans would get out of the way. But while bringing up abortion and Roe v. Wade, immigration and the border, and democracy and Jan. 6, he didn't offer many bipartisan grace notes or propose an agenda that can pass Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:37.0	President Biden delivers a blustery and remarkably political state of the union address as he tries to frame up the
0:45.7	2024 election and his rematch with Donald Trump. Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the
0:51.4	Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist
0:55.9	Kim Strassal, and editorial board member Kate Batchelder O'Dell. It seemed to my eye that the State of the Union address President Biden delivered last night before a joint session of Congress
1:07.0	didn't have a whole lot of new policy, some emphasis on proposals that President Biden has made in the past, but it seemed to be mostly focused
1:15.1	on the politics without a whole lot of bipartisanship or even attempt at bipartisanship.
1:21.4	Let's start with a clip that I think characterizes a lot of the speech. This is
1:25.9	President Biden talking about his infrastructure bill that he passed.
1:30.1	Thanks to our bipartisan infrastructure law, 46,000 new projects have announced all across your communities.
1:37.0	And by the way, I noticed some of you strongly voted against it are there cheering on that money coming out.
1:42.0	I like it.
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