He ad-libbed a response to a pretty harsh moment, as some heckling about the tragic murder of UGA student Laken Riley, he got her name wrong.
They wanted him to be a fighter and boy fight did he deliver.
ABBY PHILLIP: What's so striking to me is that Republicans, I think because they their whole thing right now is that Joe Biden is slow, that he's too old, that he can't do this, they walk into this trap every time that the White House sets for them.
It creates an opening, an opportunity for Joe Biden to react.
He said to them, "I know you know how to read." He had he had a lot of moments where he was kind of trolling them, and that worked for him in this speech, because that's essentially, at the end of the day, this was a speech about all the things that presidents make speeches about.
The question before Joe Biden today that he needed to answer the most was, how does he present to the American public? Republicans, it seemed to me, really handed him a golden opportunity on multiple occasions during the speech to do exactly what his aides wanted him to do, which was show some fight, show his ability to react in the moment.
He did it a few times tonight at without any major gaffes, and I think that was ultimately the bar that his aides wanted him to clear.
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