State of Biden Is . . . Strong? But Kamala Harris, Not So Much
The Mona Charen Show
The Bulwark
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait helps evaluate the SOTU: politics, visuals, and substance. The group then considers Kamala Harris's unprecedentedly terrible press.
highlights/lowlights:
Jonathan's:
Linda's:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/09/supreme-court-ethics-code/
Damon's
https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/the-movie-industrys-confused-eat-the-rich-fantasy.html
Bill's:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1155375633/romney-santos-state-of-the-union
Mona's:
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/czech-voters-populism-pavel/672936/
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| 0:26.8 | per month required. Terms of plaeton. co-dotco. UK. Welcome to Beg to Defer. The Bullworks Weekly Round Table discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. |
| 0:45.0 | We range from center left to center right. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Mona Charon, indicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark, and I'm joined |
| 0:52.1 | by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings |
| 0:54.4 | Institution in the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Nestanin Center and |
| 0:58.8 | Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack, Eyes on the Right. |
| 1:02.9 | Our special guest this week is Jonathan Chase, |
| 1:05.3 | political columnist for New York magazine. |
| 1:08.3 | Welcome, one and all, delighted you could all be here. |
| 1:11.8 | Jonathan, nice to have you back. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.0 | So let us begin with a story that turned out to be a little bit surprising, I think it's fair to say, |
| 1:21.0 | that Joe Biden delivered what most people think was a quite |
| 1:25.1 | strong State of the Union address. Not too many people watched it. The |
| 1:30.2 | viewership was down even compared to his last State of the Union address, but among the |
| 1:37.7 | chattering class it was viewed as a huge success. So the first thing to address I guess is did he succeed in beginning |
| 1:50.3 | to push back against the narrative that is out there. |
| 1:53.2 | There was Paul, for example, showing that 62% of respondents |
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