Biden’s Unspectacular Address

President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 1, 2022. Julia Nikhinson/Pool/Getty Images

Commentary

When a president’s poll numbers are tanking, as the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows they are for President Biden—37 percent approval—he needed to do something spectacular, even radical, to keep him from sinking further. Unfortunately for Biden and his party, he did nothing that is likely to stem his free fall. Washington Post columnist Henry Olson said Biden’s re-hashed agenda is “dead on arrival” in Congress.