Biden needs to show that he has what it takes in the State of the Union tonight
Kicking the Bidens in the Butt: Opening the 2020 Presidential Campaign with Spicy Biden and a Special Representation of the White Witch
It’s time to kick this soul-sucker of a presidential race in the butt. And the most obvious place to begin is to invite him to the State of the Union address.
Spicy Biden tends to play well with the public and the media. The State of the Union he delivered last year was mixed in with right-wing hecklers and earned him high marks. As House MAGA minions such as the representatives Andy Ogles and — surprise! — Marjorie Taylor Greene belched their disapproval, Mr. Biden engaged them with wicked good humor, at one point expressing delight that everyone had agreed to take entitlement cuts permanently off the table. The president might have been helped by the fact that she was like the White Witch from the movie. Did anyone else think she would turn the Democrats to stone? But he won the encounter because he visibly seemed to enjoy all the sparring, tweaking his antagonists without ever turning nasty.
It’s one thing to say, ‘I am the one who is fighting for you’, if you do not have much fight in you, that isn’t really compelling to people who want that,'” he said.
This is sacrilegiously for a speechwriter to say but it’s actually not in the words he says but in the way he presents those words,” said Sarada Peri, who was a speech writer for Barack Obama.
President Biden can lay out what this election is about now that he’s in office, said a Democratic political consultant. “Here’s what my presidency has been about, what’s at stake, what I’m fighting for.”
Vice President Biden said some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to end. Biden kept the back and forth going, negotiating in real time. Biden’s supporters and his detractors were quieted by the moment.
The Democratic establishment quickly fell into line behind the incumbent president after questions about Biden’s political plans quieted after the speech.
“It was a good moment for people who watch the president work off a teleprompter, that he’s still got it,” said Faiz Shakir, manager of the 2020 presidential campaign. “He has his wits, he has his humor, and he has his fight.”
The speech was a success because of Biden standing up for popular programs and taking the fight to his Republican opponents in Congress.
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Poll after poll show voters still wonder whether Biden is too old for the job. Then last month, a special counsel report about Biden’s handling of classified documents damningly described him as a “sympathethic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
As part of an effort to push back against that assessment, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre again cited that moment in the House chamber. “I mean, we saw it at the last State of the Union,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “You know, he was able to negotiate while giving a very important speech.”
And he’ll draw contrasts with Republicans on economic policy, protecting democracy and reproductive rights — a day after former President Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee in the race.
There will be updates on the war in Gaza, an effort to harangue House Republicans into voting for Ukraine aid, and talk about finishing the job on a long list of domestic priorities.
