Joe Biden Said What Americans Needed to Hear: “We’re Going to Be O.K.”

It has been a very long time since a State of the Union address lifted a president’s approval rating from underwater to the dry ground above 50%. You need to go all the way back to 1996, and Bill Clinton’s “the era of big government is over” speech—and Clinton’s six-point bounce came on top of a respectable starting position of 46%. Joe Biden is barely polling in the 40s, the country he leads has been battered by two years of a pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is providing a fresh, frightening crisis. Biden’s camp certainly did not expect… Read Full Article