Gloria Borger, CNN’s chief political analyst suffered short-term memory impairment while responding to President Biden’s Tuesday State of the Union speech. She claimed that she couldn’t recall the last time a president was given a standing ovation from both parties because Trump wasn’t one.
Leading the discussion was Wolf Blitzer, who declared: “You know, Gloria, as we take a look at this reaction coming in, I think the president should be pretty pleased that Republicans, first of all, were giving him a standing ovation on certain lines as far as Ukraine is concerned. But the reaction from Republicans on the Ukraine portion of his speech was pretty positive.”
Borger agreed to this, but then the picture got fuzzy. “[W]hen was the last time you saw a bipartisan standing ovation in the United States Congress,”She also asked other panelists. “I can’t remember the—the– last time. No, not in the recent past. Certainly not in the last four years or so. So yes.”
Such comments not only ignore that there was no such foreign policy crisis to unite around during the Trump years, but that he did receive bipartisan standing ovations multiple times. For example, when talking about similarly non-controversial things like cancer-fighting initiatives and finding cures for AIDS.
Borger tried to assert that Biden was trying to appeal only to Republicans. “And Biden did try and appeal, even on domestic policy, to Republicans. It’s not about ‘defunding the police. She talked about ‘funding police.’
The minimum that we can expect of politicians is to commit to the funding of the police. Biden’s presidency will be in serious trouble if Republicans don’t give him credit.
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The following transcript contains the coverage of March 1.
CNN Analyse Post Address
3/1/2022
11:08 PMWOLF BLITZER: You know, Gloria, as we take a look at this reaction coming in, I think the president should be pretty pleased that Republicans, first of all, were giving him a standing ovation on certain lines as far as Ukraine is concerned. But the reaction from Republicans on the Ukraine portion of his speech was pretty positive.
GLORIA BORGER : It was very encouraging. I mean, when was the last time you saw a bipartisan standing ovation in the United States Congress? I can’t remember the—the– last time. In recent history, no. Certainly not in the last four years or so. So yes. And I think they knew that that was going to occur. And that was why they put it at the top of the speech. Obviously, it’s on everyone’s mind. Number one. But there is a sense in this country the longer this war goes on the more public opinion has been shifting to being to being saying, you know what, we need to care about what goes on in Ukraine. So I don’t think they were surprised by it in the White House. But that part of the speech, I think, was really well written. And Biden did try and appeal, even on domestic policy, to Republicans. It is not to defund the police. It is to fund the police.
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