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Trump’s Polls Stink. Will SOTU Turn Them Around?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger are going live to discuss Trump’s brutal poll numbers and the political stakes of his State of the Union address.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. I think we are live. Welcome to another one, the second of many. Morning Chasers

0:07.4

with me, Andrew Eger, White House correspondent for the Bullwork, and co-author of the Morning

0:11.8

Shots newsletter with The Guy to My Right. I assume he is also to my right where you're seeing

0:15.8

him. Bill Crystal, our editor at large, fearless elder, fearless elder statesman of the bulwark.

0:21.3

We're the morning shots team.

0:22.2

We come here to talk to you on Tuesdays after we get our newsletter out.

0:26.3

It's a new thing that we're trying.

0:27.8

We hope you like it.

0:29.2

Not just any Tuesday today, however.

0:31.4

It's a big, fat, important Tuesday because tonight Donald Trump will be heading to the Congress to get up in front of everybody

0:39.6

and tell the Congress and the American public what a great job he has been doing as president

0:44.7

over the last year in his state of the union address. These tend to be slob knockers for the

0:51.9

president. He likes to yap. You may have noticed over the years. He has not

0:56.1

actually technically broken the record for the longest state of the union address, which is still

1:01.2

held, I believe, by Bill Clinton, who went for an hour and almost an hour and a half once in the

1:06.1

past. But he has talked longer than that on one occasion.

1:13.1

Last year, Trump went for like an hour 40,

1:14.8

but it was not technically a state of the union due to insane regulations around how that term is used.

1:19.8

The first one you do in your presidency doesn't count.

1:22.1

So that one doesn't count.

1:22.8

We'll see if he can break the record tonight.

1:24.4

He has said it's going to be a long speech.

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