Browsing: State of the Union 2024

United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain reasserted his support for President Biden after being acknowledged by the president in his State of the Union address. “Joe Biden has a history of serving people, and standing with working-class people, and Donald Trump has a history of serving himself, and standing for the billionaire…

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Biden’s most inspiring moment of his State of the Union address was “when he left” Friday. “I think at the end when he left,” Gingrich responded when asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her show, “The Ingraham Angle,” if the president had an “overriding, inspiring…

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) expressed his distaste for President Biden’s recent State of the Union Address Friday. “He wasn’t speaking to the nation, what he was really doing is speaking to his party,” McCarthy said in an interview on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Friday, highlighted by Mediaite. “This was more about a…

Former Democratic presidential primary candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (Minn.) defended the father of a Marine killed in Afghanistan who shouted at President Biden and was arrested during the State of the Union address Thursday. “As a Gold Star Son myself, I can only imagine the pain he has felt since losing his son in Afghanistan,”…

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) took down a social media post, which he later referred to as “inappropriate,” shortly after it was posted Friday afternoon. The post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, featured side-by-side pictures of actor Sydney Sweeney wearing a revealing outfit during her recent appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” and…

The head of the House Democrats had some choice words Friday for those Republicans accusing President Biden of delivering an overly political State of the Union speech the night before. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) noted that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had attended the speech wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat —…

A majority of Americans who watched had a positive response to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday evening, a CNN flash poll found. More than 6 in 10 Americans who watched the speech had a positive reaction to the president’s message, the survey conducted by SSRS shortly after the address found. CNN noted…