State of the Union analysis: Biden's big audition
9 months, 2 weeks ago

State of the Union analysis: Biden's big audition

LA Times  

President Biden arrived at the Capitol on Thursday night facing a tough assignment — a high-stakes State of the Union speech. The fiery performance, leavened by some humor at the close, aimed to rebut one of the main lines of Republican attack on Biden — the effort to portray the 81-year-old president as doddering and weak. That finding isn’t quite as dire as it might look — former President Trump is 77, and the share of Americans who lack confidence in his mental capacity to serve is only slightly smaller: 57%. Still, worries about Biden’s capacity to deal with a turbulent world provide a major reason — perhaps the major reason — why he narrowly trails the former president in most current polls.

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