Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) went off on President Joe Biden’s Thursday night State of the Union speech, a diatribe so full of rage and venom that it was hard to watch.
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Biden spent most of the evening shouting at the assembled lawmakers, hectoring those on the wrong side of the aisle and demeaning anyone with different viewpoints.
Cruz rightfully laid into him, saying that the speech seemed like the rantings of an angry old man. Appearing on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News, he said he’s never witnessed such an alienating spectacle:
Look, I think tonight was astonishing. I've never seen anything like it.
It was a campaign speech, but it was an exceptionally bad campaign speech. Joe Biden was angry. He was bitter. He was screaming, as you noted. The entire night he was radical and extreme, and he was completely out of touch with the American people.
Ted Cruz has had enough:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 8, 2024
"Joe Biden was angry, he was bitter, he was screaming the entire night. He was radical and extreme." pic.twitter.com/8AQGbuz4GA
It seemed like he was just screeching at neighborhood kids, Cruz opined.
Frankly tonight Joe Biden reminded me like an angry old man standing on his porch, screaming to the kids, "Get off my lawn!" That's who he was.
I've never seen…. I've been to 12 State of the Union addresses. I've never seen anything remotely like this. This was entirely focused on the November election.
Biden basically told Republicans—who make up roughly half of the electorate—to go play in traffic.
...what's remarkable, Sean, is Joe Biden and the Biden White House, they apparently made the decision that they want no Republican votes because this told every Republican go jump in the lake.
We don't care about anything you believe in. They also decided, amazingly, they want no independent votes. They've decided their strategy for November is go hard left and turn out the radical left.
What’s striking is that the president made absolutely no attempt to unite people or foster bipartisanship.
...and it was, you know, in State of the Unions typically, whether you have a Democrat or Republican president who's giving the speech, there are a number of lines there that are designed to reach out to the other party that get everyone standing.
I gotta say this was the State of the Union in in many ways, half the Republicans almost fell asleep because after welcoming the president where we stand and show respect for the office, we basically just sat there for over an hour, as he told lie after lie after lie.
And he just went hard left. I've never seen anything like this.
Biden obviously wanted to come out strong to shore up his foundering reelection campaign. But he failed, and failed badly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this goes down in the history books as one of the worst State of the Union addresses in American history.
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