Democrat President Joe Biden will take the podium Thursday evening to deliver his third and possibly, depending on the outcome of the November presidential election, last State of the Union address as president of the United States.
Eight-foot-tall steel fencing is put up around the U.S. Capitol the day before President Joe Biden is to deliver the State of the Union address on March 6, 2024, in Washington, DC. State of the Union addresses are where presidents often tout accomplishments in the past year or lofty goals for the year ahead. But in Biden's case, 2024's speech comes at a particularly perilous time for him politically and for the nation policy-wise.
Trump currently leads Biden in most general election polling and in key battleground states around the country, while Biden has reached a near-record low in his disapproval rating from American voters.
Biden's own Justice Department - through Special Counsel Robert Hur - just determined that Biden will not face criminal charges he otherwise would have because, in Hur's estimation, Biden is too "Elderly" with "Poor memory" issues.
First off is the economy, where inflation continues to rage out of control, and Biden will seek to shift blame for that from himself and his Democrats' failed policies to companies by leaning into the buzzword "Shrink-Flation." That is hardly the only place Biden will play the blame game on Thursday: When it comes to immigration and his failed policies - which have allowed millions upon millions of migrants into the country - Biden will undoubtedly seek to blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the flow because of their decision to block a bipartisan Senate foreign aid deal negotiated by, among others, Sen. James Lankford.
Perhaps the biggest tell in his State of the Union address will be how Biden handles what he and his closest advisers recently told the New Yorker they expect to be the centerpiece of his 2024 reelection campaign: The nonsensical argument that Republicans and Trump are somehow a threat to democracy itself.
UPDATE 9:41 p.m. ET:. While Biden is ripping America apart with arguably the most divisive State of the Union address in history, and an angry and nasty tone, Trump in contrast is providing humorous commentary over on his Truth Social feed.
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