The GOP’s heckling and low expectations backfired again
At
The Atlantic,
David A. Graham notes that Republicans set Biden up to succeed:
It could help reset the Biden campaign narrative, if the campaign and its supporters take the baton
At the HuffPost,
Jonathan Cohn argues that as far as SOTU speeches go, this could be a very useful one, moving forward:
Intelligencer’s Jonathan Chait explains that after Biden defied the feeble expectations they set for him, Trump and his allies decided to claim the president was Barry Bonds–ing it with performance-enhancing drugs:
Biden’s speech exceeded the media’s very low expectations, too
Vox’s
Andrew Prokop argues that the the aftermath of the SOTU shows how media coverage of Biden and his campaign up to now has been too focused on trivialities:
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Not all fawning from the NewYorker....
‘Joe from Delaware’ might not win over disaffected workers
Paul Sracic, a politics professor at Youngstown State University and Hudson Institute adjunct fellow,
told CNN that he didn’t think Biden did enough to win over white working-class voters without college degrees who have been voting for Trump:
‘There’s life in the old boy yet.’
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan
seemed at least somewhat impressed:
“It’s dangerous rhetoric. And I think that the president is getting bad advice from his advisers and speech writers. That kind of rhetoric is what inspired the people who killed Aaron Martinez,” U.S. Rep.
Joaquin Castro said, referring to a North Texas man who was killed by his neighbor who repeatedly harassed Martinez’s family over their Latino ethnicity. Castro brought Martinez’s wife, Priscilla Martinez, as his guest Thursday.
Ahh balance. As someone who is perpetually imbalanced...you should try it some time. Enjoy your Ramen Shirley.