With bitter months to go, the 2024 election is far from a normal election.
Also, this SOTU may have been one of Bidens last chances to own the agenda.
Tonight, with comeback one of the nights big terms, he grabbed it.
Joe Biden at the State of the Union on ThursdayPhoto by Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images
; and, over the blocked bipartisan border proposal, Oh you dont like that bill?
… Ill be darned.
Biden finally seemed the president in public that his aides and surrogates claim he is in the Oval Office.
I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponents youth and inexperience.
Biden continued, And when you get to my age certain things become clearer than ever before.
Putting it all on the table, the president of a deeply divided America went into full reelection mode.
Just like they have before, the GOP and Trump walked right into the trap.
Just like they have over and over since 2020, the GOP and Trump underestimated Biden.
(Well, Trump ranted when he could, as his social media platform seemed to keep crashing.)
Was it a stunt?
Of course, and about as spontaneous as a sunrise.
Yes, the rally-cry election speech Biden delivered tonight was more political than almost any SOTU in modern times.
the millions watching on TV and online.
It was the political rope-a-dope in action that took things to another level.
A student of the presidency, Biden has finessed the tactic over the years.
Its time to do more than talk, POTUS forcefully stated.
Thats what a SOTU is supposed to do.
The state of our union is strong, and getting stronger, Biden said tonight.
