There are a lot of words that you might expect to hear a president say over and over in a state of the union address.

Words like jobs or freedom or if it's a Joe Biden speech, folks.

But the president last night chose a different word to be the theme of his remarks.

He chose the word predecessor.

My predecessor, a former Republican president tells Putin, quote, do whatever the hell you want.

My predecessor came to office determined to see Roe v. Wade overturned. He's the reason was overturned and he brags

about it. My predecessor failed the most basic presidential duty that he owes to

American people the duty to care.

I think that's unforgivable.

My predecessor told the NRA, he's proud he did nothing on guns when he was president.

My predecessor, and many in this chamber chamber want to take for this

reposition drug away by repealing Affordable Care Act.

I'm not going to let that happen. We stopped you 50 times before we will stop you again.

President Biden did not actually utter Donald Trump's name once during that speech

But he referred to his predecessor more than a dozen times

That was just one of the ways that an animated and according to nearly every single

newspaper headline today a feisty Joe Biden used his state of the Union

to kick off officially this year's general election, to reset his campaign

and to kill the narrative that Biden is too old and he's not up to the job.

And today the Biden campaign was hot out of the gates with plans.

Plans for barnstorming and blanketing the airwaves and moving the troops to the

battlefront. Many, many plans. The president kicked off a campaign blitz with a rally in

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