President Biden will deliver his first official State of the Union address tonight from the U.S. House Chamber. Amid the current domestic and international turmoil, the President will attempt to paint his policies and efforts in the best light possible despite multiple ongoing crises and diminishing public confidence in his leadership.
Look for a heavy emphasis on any positive economic numbers and clear omission and avoidance of topics like skyrocketing fuel costs, inflation, the southern border, and the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Also, with the CDC conveniently adjusting their guidelines days ahead of his speech, Biden will try to declare “mission accomplished” against Covid once more despite his numerous failings to “shut down the virus” as promised. More Americans died of Covid-19 under President Biden’s first year in office than the previous administration, but that’s not a record the White House will be showcasing.
The live stream is embedded below and the speech will also be carried on all major broadcast and cable news networks.
President Biden’s 2022 SOTU Address
When: March 1, 2022
Time: 9 pm ET (8 pm CT, 7 pm MT, 6 pm PT)
Where: House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building
Watch on TV: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other major networks
Stream: Live stream embedded below
Biden 2022 SOTU Live Stream
Alternate Links: C-SPAN, ABC News (YouTube)
The President has a real challenge ahead of him given the current situation in the country and around the globe:
President Biden will deliver the State of the Union address before both Houses of Congress on Tuesday, March 1, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and less than a week after he announced his nominee for the Supreme Court.
This will be Mr. Biden’s first State of the Union, since he had not been in office long enough last year to deliver an official State of the Union. In his address before the joint session of Congress last year, Mr. Biden delivered a hopeful message focused on his ambitious plans for recovering from the pandemic, saying, “in America, we always get up.”
This year, Mr. Biden faces polls showing high disapproval ratings as America headed into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic amid worries about inflation and foreign conflicts. As he hit one year in office, a CBS News poll found that while most respondents personally liked Mr. Biden, words like “frustrated” and “disappointed” topped people’s descriptions of things, along with the feeling that he’s “distracted” and not focusing on what they care about.
As always, the party out of power will be delivering a response. This year, the Republican SOTU rebuttal will come from Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
Reynolds is expected to counter much of what Biden says, especially when it comes to the warped view of Democrats trying to become the “party of normal” opening the country up after they spent 2+ years shutting it down:
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cited Reynolds’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and signing of a law that prohibits schools from teaching critical race theory examining the legacy of slavery in American society. Both are hot-button cultural issues the GOP is making a central part of its campaign platform heading into this year’s midterm elections.
“She kept kids in school and critical race theory out,” McCarthy said.
Reynolds’s remarks will be aired on national television following Biden’s speech, which is set to begin shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern next Tuesday night.
All the networks which carry Biden’s SOTU speech will also carry Reynolds’ response. The GOP will be walking a careful line so as to point out policy differences, but not take away from Biden’s position as Commander in Chief when it comes to dealing with Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian invasion still underway.
Reports indicate that Biden will likely stay away from words like “inflation” since that would remind voters during a nationally televised address how poorly the administration’s domestic policy is faring. Undoubtedly, if the subject is broached, it will be couched in a way that tries to blame the Russia-Ukraine conflict for everything troubling the country right now and deflect blame from Biden’s policies.
Tune in tonight at 9 pm for Biden’s first SOTU.
