State of the Union: Joe Biden to test message with divided Congress as he eyes 2024
- Joe Biden will deliver the second State of the Union of his presidency on Tuesday
- Polls show well under half of Democrats want Biden, 80, to seek a second term
US President Joe Biden will get to test drive his 2024 campaign message in front of the nation when he delivers his State of the Union address.
The speech is set for 9pm EST on Tuesday (10am Wednesday, Hong Kong time), and will be broadcast by the major US networks and cable news TV channels.
Though Biden has yet to officially announce his re-election run, he has begun the year by using a sharper tone against Republicans at a series of campaign-style events. His address to a joint session of Congress is an opportunity to tout his achievements and contrast himself with his opponents before tens of millions of voters.
Biden will deliver his second State of the Union under very different political circumstances than his first, though he is riding high off two recent headline-grabbing events.
On Friday, the US reported a blowout jobs report that exceeded expectations and on Saturday the US military downed an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina.
Taken together the two events affirm key tenets of Biden’s economic and foreign policy stances: that the economy remains strong and is more likely to experience a soft landing rather than recession and that a tougher US posture toward China is warranted.