President Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech final Thursday, providing his pitch for why he needs to be president for a second time period. It’s the clearest image we’ve got but of Biden’s marketing campaign message for 2024. However whereas he listed off every kind of proposals, it’s not as straightforward to parse what a second Biden time period would possibly truly appear to be. So I sat down with my editor Aaron Retica, who had a whole lot of questions for me concerning the speech itself and what Biden can be prone to accomplish if he acquired one other 4 years within the job.
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We talk about how my argument for Biden to step apart holds up after he gave such a deft, high-energy efficiency; what a second Biden administration would possible do relating to abortion rights and international coverage; the problems that didn’t obtain a lot consideration within the speech however would possible play an enormous position in a second Biden time period; the strongest 2024 marketing campaign message that I’ve heard up to now; and whether or not it is a Locke election or a Hobbes election — and what meaning.
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