Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah is your joint by Declan Garvey and David

Drucker and boy do we have a lineup today?

We're gonna talk some state of the union what it looks like a few days out now and

What it means for Joe Biden's administration and what it told us about Republicans moving forward

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Let's die right there. All right David's been a couple days since the state of the union

Net was this a win for the Biden White House the way that his

Advisors are are touting it. I mean they're taking some real victory laps this week. Yeah, a really good question

Look, I think it sort of depends on exactly what they hope to accomplish

Democrats broadly were very very happy with the speech and you could see it across social media

I could sense it on the hill

I was on Capitol Hill for the state of the union talk to a number of Democrats after the speech as they were leaving the House chamber and

even Democrats the still aren't sold on Joe Biden for 2024 had nothing bad to say about the speech and a number of Democrats were in fact

very energized by it

The key question I wanted to to ask and I think what the White House really wanted to accomplish here is

To put President Biden in a place where party regulars are comfortable with him as the 2024 nominee

If he runs which we expect he will be the nominee, but are they going to be comfortable with it? Are they going to be energized by it?

right and

Going back to last year when things really went south for him with his approval ratings and

concerns about his ability to govern and

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