Biden’s Speech Was Not the Win the Political Class Thought It Was

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pennsylvania—It is a bit jarring to observe the divide between what the legacy press, Democrats and cable news hosts observed when they watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, and how persuadable voters of both Republican and Democratic leanings reacted.

On the day after the speech, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said President Biden gave “his best speech of his presidency by far. ... Strongest speech, and, most importantly, for people that were thinking, ‘Oh, he’s too old. He’s too that, man’ ... he gave a lot more than he got.”

CNN’s Stephen Collinson wrote that President Biden “projected vigor and forcefulness” and “was a trenchant master of the chamber of the House of Representatives, effectively wielding the theatrics of the presidency and commanding an hour of unfiltered primetime television.”

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