“BIDEN’S ‘FIERY’ SOTU DIDN’T SAVE FLAILING CAMPAIGN”
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But not only did Biden get no post-State of the Union bump, 538 has a metapathetic 37.4% the lowest point of his entire presidency and the approval column. If only someone could have predicted this. We'll see soon when real polling comes out, but in the long term, I don't think the speech helped him at all. Joining me now, Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of "The Federalist" and Byron York, chief political correspondent for "The Washington Examiner," both Fox News contributors. Molly, who ever thought that sending Biden out there to yell would be a good strategy, should be fired, but then again, no one's ever fired in this administration. - Yeah, no one ever is held responsible. But what I'm so glad you showed these people praising that speech. That's what everybody was doing in print and other media. And it didn't take any particular excellent punditry to see that this was an unbelievably bad State of the Union speech. One of the worst that anyone had ever seen. So divisive, so angry, so mean toward people. So if you were gonna have to have him, they did have a difficult job. They did have to have him out there and have him perform for a while. Even if he'd just given an eloquent speech that talked in hopeful ways, that would have helped him more than this bizarre speech he gave. - Yeah, Byron, they want to double down on failure. They refuse to change policies. Molly and I have talked about this so many times. So instead they replace that with anger and divisiveness and a sense of resentment ran through that speech, which I think that just doesn't go over well with people who feel like they've been hammered over the last three years. - You know, there were some Republicans who were in the room that night saying, we wish the White House would have given us just something where we could stand up and agree and it could look like everybody is all bipartisan and everything and Biden didn't give him absolutely anything. But I do think the bigger explanation for his demeanor is they believe that by yelling, he would seem younger. He wouldn't seem quite as old and it didn't work. And what you pointed out is absolutely correct. When a speech like this happens, not that many people watch it in terms of the 330 something million Americans. It takes a week or so for them to read about it, talk to people about it and now you see it didn't do any good.
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