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Speaker 1: Because I believe in America. I believe in you, the

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Speaker 1: American people. You're the reason we've never been more optimistic

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Speaker 1: about our future than I am now. So let's build

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Speaker 1: the future together. Let's remember who we are. We are

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Speaker 1: the United States of America, and there is nothing, nothing

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Speaker 1: beyond our capacity, and we act together.

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Speaker 2: The State of the Union has been delivered, and there

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Speaker 2: are two hundred and forty three days left until the

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Speaker 2: presidential election. This was the most political State of the

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Speaker 2: Union address that has ever been delivered. Joe Biden did

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Speaker 2: not name his opponent, referred often to his predecessor, and

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Speaker 2: it is appropriate to do so. To not do so

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Speaker 2: is to exist in a fantasy world. America for the

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Speaker 2: last eight years has been done dominated by a singular figure,

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Speaker 2: the greatest demagogue who has ever lived, the most dangerous,

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Speaker 2: single threat to the Republic that has ever breathed. Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump from Queens, New York, the real estate hustler who

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Speaker 2: never met a contractor he didn't rip off. Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is an unavoidable subject when speaking before Republicans of the

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Speaker 2: United States Congress because Donald Trump is their boss. He

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Speaker 2: controls the strings, he pulls them, and the puppets yank.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's not a coequal branch of government,

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Speaker 2: at least not on the Republican side, because they have

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Speaker 2: subordinated their duty, their constitutional oaths, and their institution to

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Speaker 2: the whims of somebody who could barely speak in a

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Speaker 2: coherent sentence. It is astonishing to watch now a State

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Speaker 2: of the Union address esthetically as oratory is always something

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Speaker 2: that's offensive. It drones on for far too long. It

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Speaker 2: seems like every conceivable issue that could conceivably been tested

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Speaker 2: winds up in the speech, a line here, aligne there,

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Speaker 2: all of it adding up. Let me explain to you

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Speaker 2: why that is. Imagine you're a person who uses insolent.

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Speaker 2: That line for the speech will reach you on internet advertising,

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Speaker 2: through television advertising, threw direct mail, brew door knocking, over

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Speaker 2: and over and over and over again. Every issue for

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Speaker 2: which there is a community that was addressed in this

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Speaker 2: speech will find its way through repetitive communications aimed to

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Speaker 2: an individual in a highly sophisticated marketing and communications campaign.

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Speaker 2: These types of campaigns are determinative in an election that's

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Speaker 2: likely to be decided across a couple of states by

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Speaker 2: a couple tens of thousands of votes. Now the speech

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Speaker 2: droned on for a bit in the middle before concluding

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Speaker 2: with strong and affirmative language. The end of the speech

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Speaker 2: rhetorically is what the speech will be remembered for. Beyond

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Speaker 2: the major accomplishment of the speech, which is simple to understand.

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Speaker 2: Three years of work abetted by tremendous incompetence by the

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Speaker 2: White House Communications operation was refuted tonight by the President's

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Speaker 2: State of the Union. The disheveled, incompetent, incoherent oh Man

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Speaker 2: who is depicted as being absolutely unable to make it

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Speaker 2: through a meeting, showed up on national television an ad

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Speaker 2: lived and carried and proverbially kicked as when confronted by

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Speaker 2: nonsense in front of millions of people. The incapable old

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Speaker 2: man narrative was obliterated in the speech tonight. The White

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Speaker 2: House should understand that the man who can stand before

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Speaker 2: the nation during the State of the Union address and

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Speaker 2: deal with crazed Republicans yelling nonsense at him, can certainly

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Speaker 2: deal with the White House Press Corps can certainly communicate

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Speaker 2: a message through the turbulence, through the friction, through the heat.

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Speaker 2: The President is who he is. The question about whether

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Speaker 2: he's capable, whether he's in command, whether he knows those

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Speaker 2: what's going on was decisively refuted tonight, and the only way,

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Speaker 2: the only way it gets saddled to the president again

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Speaker 2: is if he allows it to happen by recloistering himself

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Speaker 2: into a bubble where he is hidden, shielded, where the

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Speaker 2: American people do not get to see that he's capable,

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Speaker 2: that he has energy and vision. The President talked about

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Speaker 2: a great many things in the State of the Union address,

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Speaker 2: but the most important things he talked about were freedom,

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Speaker 2: and he talked about freedom convincingly from Ukraine across the

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Speaker 2: entire world. This election has monumental consequences for the lives

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Speaker 2: of ordinary people. What President Biden did tonight isn't win

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Speaker 2: the election, and he didn't even really give a State

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Speaker 2: of the Union, or at least he gave a new

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Speaker 2: type of State of the Union, a highly political one

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Speaker 2: one that needed giving, because what needs confronting is a

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Speaker 2: domestic political threat which has metastasized into a fascism that

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Speaker 2: is here, that is clear and is a grave danger.

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Speaker 2: It should be taken seriously. President laid out across the

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Speaker 2: depth and breath of the government under his administration, the

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Speaker 2: achievements of his office and his tenure, as well as

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Speaker 2: a vision for what comes next. In the completion of

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Speaker 2: an eight year Biden term of office, it is time,

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Speaker 2: in my view, to accept something. We can't go forward

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Speaker 2: as a country on any matter until Donald Trump is

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Speaker 2: repudiated for a second time. Until that happens, we are

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Speaker 2: stuck eight years in with only one way out, and

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Speaker 2: that's through the madness to victory with the man who

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Speaker 2: stood before the Congress and held his own who commanded

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Speaker 2: the room tonight in a speech. Though not the Gettysburg

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Speaker 2: address was more than enough to reset the clock on

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Speaker 2: the biggest question in the race. Is Joe Biden ready

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Speaker 2: for the rumble? Joe Biden looked to me like he's

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Speaker 2: ready for the fight ahead. And that's good news for

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Speaker 2: the United States of America on this day, with two

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Speaker 2: hundred forty three more to go, Thank you for listening

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