President Joe Biden gave two distinct State of the Union speeches. The first one was better.
Biden drew repeated bipartisan applause with a vigorous denunciation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked Ukraine power grab and a vow that “freedom will always triumph over tyranny.”
But the night largely lapsed into familiar partisan divisions when he returned to domestic issues, defending his administration’s progress in spurring the economy and fighting the COVID pandemic, outlining steps to curb inflation and again touting his stalled environmental and social legislation.
