safer and be able to wage war with more clarity. our ph will have a single purpose, to drive through breakthroughs in cancer, diabetes. for our nation, we can do these things. it s within our power. and i don t see a partisan edge to any of those four things. my fellow americans, tonight we, we ve gathered in the sacred space. a citadel of democracy. in this capital, generation after generation of americans have debated great questions. made great strives. have done great things. we fought for freedom, we expanded liberty, debated totalitarianism and terror. we built the strongest, furious, and most prosperous nation the world has ever known. now is the hour, our moment of
responsibility, our test of resolve unconscious. of history itself, it is in this moment that our character of this generation is formed. our purpose is found. our futures forged. well, i know this nation. we ll meet the test. protect freedom and liberty, expand fairness and opportunity. and we will save democracy, as part of those times open, i m are optimistic about america today than i have been the whole life, because i see the future that s within our grasp. because i know, there s simply nothing beyond our capacity, we are the only nation on earth that has always turned every crisis we faced into an opportunity. the only nation that can be defined by a single world, possibilities. so on this night, on a 245th year as a nation, i ve come to
we are now gonna have an infrastructure decade. by the way, that was one of 80 bipartisan bills that i supported. that s back to the center for joe biden. i think this was a reminder of why people joe biden was joe biden before the speech. i agree with nikole on ukraine and defending democracy. it really put down his state there saying, lie will triumph over darkness, freedom will triumph over tyranny. he is a foreign policy president fundamentally, that was his skill set when he was united states senator. and i think you can really see his gravitas, the things that make him easy to deal with world leaders, because he truly does believe that. a lot of the rest of it was classic joe biden. he is a fundamentally bipartisan individual. so the hits he didn t take i found interesting. he had an opportunity, as you said earlier, nicole, to take a really solid hit at republicans for having supportive vladimir putin, he did not take it. this is one year
assault on the citadel of american democracy, and he didn t. because he s marginalizing that in terms of american experience. i think that s the strategic thinking that. even the calf holding the offense and goes around the capital for this speech. he is saying, listen, autocracy versus democracy is the question of our time. our democracy stands not only as a beacon but stands as the bowing to the point of the spear. in terms of defending democracy everywhere ensuring that democracies can perform. that is going that is the theme song that he played on day one in his inaugural. and he will hit it again and again and again even as donald trump, forgive me, receipts smaller and smaller and smaller on the political life. another thing that i think that he did was that was important, it was the tenth pole of joe biden sort of that s a through line of his presidency, he s trying to restore the sense that democracies can function, and that s the bipartisan is talking about, making d
backtracking quickly. 77% of trump supporters think putin is a war criminal. every time you are on, i like write down six times and underline inflation. is this the kind of thing democrats, could they capture that sentiment and run on ukraine, management, foreign policy management and all these issues we talked about as perhaps that solves their messaging problem? i think one place where a lot of democrats are unique compared to republicans, is when trump was in office, democratic voters felt that our democracy was in trouble. the president talks about autocracy versus democracy, and they understood the dismantling of the institutions at the voting booth and you can go on and on, and if he messages that way that we are living a 21st century moment of who is going to win and our sacrifice to make sure democracy is not abroad is