president his torial, michael beschloss, david ignatius, and once again, michael mcfaul. michael beschloss, according to the latest poll, not good news for joe biden, more than half the country says the president s first year in office was a failure. what is he up against in this speech? how does one speech, especially one now dominated by a foreign crisis, when most americans are really more worried about inflation, you know, how does that help him get the political lift that presidents want to get from this annual speech? doesn t help as much as it did during the time of let s say john kennedy. kennedy oddly enough in those days, presidents still gave state of the union messages at midday. they didn t care about getting a primetime audience. nonetheless, in those days, they had a big impact because you had, of course, three tv networks, probably 90% of the people watching tv, heavily
worth noting early and often over the course of this night that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in this country than native-born u.s. citizens. and so to portray immigration as a crime fighting approach. the first thing they do when a person gets here, especially without papers is go to work as fast as they can and work as hard as they can and as many hours as they can. nicolle wallace? i thought it revealed donald trump s deep and almost sad obsession with being liked. i mean, he is always performing for audience watching. he was obviously aware that this audience tonight is different from the audience that tunes in to the kinds of one-on-one interviews he grants as president. and those are usually interviews granted to friendly anchors at fox news. you mean he was speaking to a broader audience and was aware of that? as a tv figure, that the tv audience included people outside of the primetime audience at fox news. but i don t think we should
you hated being at 9:00. dana: i didn t hate it and i tried not to complain but the truth is i never got used to it. i tried not to complain. i never got used to it and i would prefer to go to bed but i won t go to bed until after your show. there are a lot of people is that i can t stay up and watch a show at 10:00. yes, you can. it s important. kimberly: fox & friends . they are going to watch it. when you think about cable battles, wars. we lost three quarters of our primetime audience, and the fact that the channel. i am saying thanks to all those people. they have been so supportive. who would have ever thought hannity would be the last man standing? dana: oh, my gosh. jesse: i was wrong. i admitted. greg: have to be nice to sean.
we all know how mike pence has run in this race. the constituencies that are important to him, the community he came out of. this is a pivotal weekend we re going into. let s not forget that it s bookended sunday night by a primetime audience that may exceed the first debate. and a town hall format, one female, one male moderator. that traditionally favors the empathetic, it favors the tactile, it favors the retail politician. and finally, i ll appeal to your sense of history. and in plain english, the guy at the top often doesn t know if and when it s time to go. 1974, hugh scott of pennsylvania, barry goldwater of arizona, congressman john rhodes
convention. his running mate, congressman paul ryan of wisconsin, took the stage last night before a roaring hall of delegates. the 42-year-old ryan accepting the vice presidential nomination and introducing himself to the country before a nationally televised primetime audience. his message part an attack on the current administration and part an argument for mitt romney. they ve run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they ve got left. with all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money, and he s pretty experienced at that. [ applause ] you see, some people can t be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics because their character, ability, and plain decency are so obvious.