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