Biden Delivers ‘Fiery’ Campaign SpeechThe state of the union is apparently fiery. Beginning with the overseas press:BBC (“State of the Union: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech“):President Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, taking repeated swipes at Donald Trump and covering the broad themes of his re-election campaign. Mr Biden used the term “my predecessor” to refer to Mr Trump 13 times in a speech that lasted more than an hour. Reuters (“Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the Union speech“):President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his case for re-election in a fiery State of the Union speech that accused Donald Trump of threatening democracy, kowtowing to Russia and torpedoing a bill to tackle U.S. immigration woes. The greater thrust of his remarks focused on Trump, though Biden did not mention him by name.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2024 19:52 UTC