President Joe Biden delivers his third State of the Union address, making a major pitch for his policies as he heads into 2024 election.FILE - President Joe Biden arrives to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. President Joe Biden will get a prime opportunity to lay out his case to the American people why he deserves another four years in office as he presents the annual State of the Union on Thursday.
But Thursday night’s speech offers him a chance to make his case to the public and to a combative and historically unproductive Congress on his vision for the country’s future. “It's a really important speech with very high stakes. I think it may be by his last opportunity with such a large audience,” said Aaron Kall, the director of debate at the University of Michigan. “Debates are kind of uncertain for the fall, so this may be the key the last guaranteed kind of big audience that the president has.”
“These speeches are tough because he's making an audience directly there to people in Congress that he needs to vote for these important issues, but also he's trying to persuade tens of millions people that are watching it at home,” Kall said. “To both the in-person audience and then those from afar, you want to make sure it comes off well and it's packaged well for both.”
Those concerns are shared by voters in both parties, though Democrats have been significantly more likely to say they trust his mental fitness and are confident in his ability to lead.
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