ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Thursday marked U.S. President Joe Biden's final State of the Union speech in the chambers of Congress before the 2024 Election.
Notable moments include laying out the clear contours of the 2024 campaign ahead, criticizing former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection and going after the Supreme Court, with justices present, over its ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Michael Kelley of 'Hancock and Kelley' thought from a Democrats perspective, Biden address was 'a home run'
"I thought many of us Democrats were worried the House of Cards was going to tumble down," said Kelley. "The President was solid, he delivered it well, he did have a couple places where he messed up, but he walked Republicans to a couple tricky places, like mentioning Ronald Reagan and got them to clap and then said 'Well he was against Russia, how come you're not?.'"
Kelley's co-host John Hancock, agreed that Biden's speech was good but fell just short of calling it a home run.
"It was a ground-rule double," said Hancock. "He could've singlehandedly destroyed his campaign (Thursday) but the fact he didn't, you have to consider that a win for Biden."
Hancock and Kelley went into further details on the speech, saying that normally during State of the Unions speeches, there would tend to be some micro analyzing on the topics that were in the speech, but Hancock says that speech felt different because from his perspective, he hasn't seen anyone really analyze it.
"I haven't seen one person talk about 'How are we going to pay for this stuff?," said Hancock. "That isn't in the issue matrix right now."
Kelley though that that the speech didn't feel like a standard State of the Union Speech but rather a launchpad to Biden 2024 re-election campaign.
Katie Britt, the junior Senator from Alabama had the Republican's response to the State of the Union speech this year and Hancock thought the speech wasn't great, but didn't blame Britt for why it wasn't great.
"(Britt) was the victim of some pretty poor coaching," said Hancock. "She would've had to rehearse that and had a coach helping her. But it just came for me as 'overacting'. She could've had delivered it a more effective response with the same contents."
"I don't know if