- Thursday’s primetime address will give President Biden a massive platform to speak to the country.
- The speech will come after Super Tuesday, where Trump is expected to sweep the Republican presidential election.
In his State of the Union address on Thursday, President Joe Biden will defend his stewardship of the country and attack his rival Donald Trump and ‘MAGA Republicans’, while asking voters which side they want to be on.
Biden’s speech comes as Trump is poised to secure the Republican presidential nomination after the Super Tuesday contests, setting up a rerun of the election between the two men. The prime-time speech will give Biden a massive platform before the country, just two days after Trump will speak at Mar-a-Lago following the GOP nominating election.
The president spent the weekend cloistered at Camp David with his top advisors working on his speech, which will be linked to election year politics.
President Joe Biden leaves the White House on Friday to spend the weekend at Camp David, where he was working on his State of the Union address.
‘President Biden will champion the need to continue building the economy from the bottom up and from the center, which has led to record job creation, the strongest economy in the world, rising wages and household wealth, and lower energy and prescription drug costs; of the Republican MAGA agenda: rewarding billionaires and corporations with tax breaks, taking away their rights and freedoms, and undermining our democracy,” said White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt.
The tough choices facing the United States will be the driving theme of Biden’s third State of the Union address, his advisers said. NBC News.
In his remarks, Biden will ask Americans if they want Reduce health care costs, democratic freedoms and prevent Ukraine from being absorbed by Russian leader Vladimir Putin? Or do they want to side with pharmaceutical company profits, tax breaks for the rich, and Putin?
The underlying argument will be that Biden is on the right side of these issues, unlike Trump.
Biden is also expected to address the war between Israel and Hamas in his remarks.
Many voters are expected to listen to the speech, which is one of the biggest platforms a president has to address Americans.
“For normal people who don’t follow the day-to-day news cycle, this is coming on (Super) Tuesday,” a Biden campaign adviser told NBC. “There will be a number of Americans who on Tuesday will stop for the first time and really take in that this is going to be Trump versus Biden in November.”
Trump is expected to sweep most of the Republican primaries on Tuesday. While he may not win enough delegates to earn the outright nomination, the math will make it difficult for Nikki Haley to get close to him.
Biden’s speech will come after the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, where Donald Trump (above) is expected to sweep the races.
President Biden’s State of the Union address at least this year, taking place in the House of Representatives
That is, Biden’s speech will come when many voters finally see the 2024 race as an inevitable repeat of Trump vs. Biden.
The speech will take place in the House chamber at the Capitol and the audience will be packed with Republican lawmakers loyal to Trump. Expect them to try to throw Biden off his game like they did last year.
Biden found himself in an unexpected clash with Republicans when they booed him for saying they wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare.
But if Biden makes a mistake, stumbles or falls on his way to the stage, that could be a political death sentence.
After the president’s speech, he and his team will fan out across the country to redouble their message.
Biden will go to Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Arizona and Nevada. Other Cabinet officials will travel to other swing states, including Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina and Tennessee.
