Sanders' "deep plunge" into culture wars

On Tuesday night, February 7, President Joe Biden was fired up when he gave his 2023 State of the Union address. Biden, with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy standing behind him, vigorously defended his economic record. The president took some shots at far-right MAGA extremists yet called for bipartisanship and made it clear that he wasn't attacking all Republicans.

Biden's SOTU was followed by a rebuttal from Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump. Never Trump conservative Amanda Carpenter compares Biden's speech and Sanders' rebuttal in an article published by The Bulwark on February 8, and she has nothing good to say about the rebuttal.

Biden's speech, Carpenter explains, "boiled down to this: economy, economy, economy," and "was a little raucous."