Biden Provides Preview of Reelection Campaign in One-Sided Appeal for Bipartisanship

After Chinese spy balloons traverse whole country, POTUS promises to protect American sovereignty

The second State of the Union address by President Joe Biden was his first given to a Republican majority House. This is likely why he opened the speech by praising his belief in bipartisan collaboration. This was also his last State of the Union speech before the 2024 election season, which is why he tried to pick fights against Republicans and channel the populist spirit of Donald Trump (his former and possibly future political opponent).

Tuesday’s speech gave a glimpse of Biden’s soon-to be-announced reelection campaign. He waved the banner of bipartisanship as a matador’s cape and offered a preview. Biden asked Republicans to support him in building on the achievements of his predecessors. “historic” The progress made during his first two terms in office when Democrats controlled both houses.

“To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there’s no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well,” Biden said. “Let’s finish the job.”

Knowing full well that such bipartisan cooperation is unlikely to materialize—as evidenced by the repeated jeers from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and others—Biden’s “finish the job” Refrain is best understood as an appeal for American voters to elect him again in 2024, and to restore Democratic power in Congress so that they can implement their controversial agenda without Republican support.

Biden addressed Congress with the confidence and conviction of a president who can forgo the bitter primary battle Republicans are about to wage against them. He presented himself as a sensible moderate who stands above the fray. “The people sent us a clear message,” He said. “Fighting for the sake of the fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere.”

It is a message that polls well and also some of Biden’s other proposals, which could be called soft core Trumpism. Make the country great again through the revival of the manufacturing sector, and by increasing our consumption domestic goods. Continue the work “powerful interests” While protecting Medicare and Social Security. Restoring national “pride” As part of a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America” That invests in “places and people that have been forgotten,” While promising not to increase taxes on the Democratic Party’s urban professional base earning between $300,000.00 and $400,000 per year, “Americans are tired of being played for suckers,” He said.

Biden won the 2020 Democratic Primary partly because he rejected the notion that left-wing pundits or other activists had any idea about the real needs of ordinary Americans. He is a moderate and sensible man who is not afraid to speak his mind. Inflation is not as he claimed in the speech. “coming down.” (Its growth merely slowed.

COVID-19 wasn’t able to harm a whole generation of American children simply by keeping schools shut under his supervision. That was what Democratic politicians and union allies did. American concerns about rising criminality are not likely to be quelled by the blame game. It’s mathematically impossible for Democrats to increase spending while simultaneously reducing the deficit in the long term. It is unclear what the Chinese spy balloon can do to protect America’s interests. “sovereignty.”