Immediate experience of the screen. Listen, you deserve a really great weekend and i hope you have one. You do too. And thanks to you at home for joining me tonight. There are a lot of words that you might expect to hear a president say over and over in a state of the union address. Words like jobs, freedom or if its a joe biden speech, folks. But he chose a different theme. He chose the word, predecessor. My predecessor. A former republican president tells putin, quote, and do whatever you want. My predecessor was seeking to see roe v wade overturned. He is the reason it was overturned and he brags about it. My predecessor failed the most basic duty to care. And i think thats unforgivable. I predecessor told the nra he is proud he did nothing on guns when he was president. My predecessor, and many in this chamber, want to by repealing Affordable Care act. Im not can let that happen. We stopped you 50 times before and we will stop you again. President biden did not utter Donald Trumps name once during that speech. But he referred to his predecessor more than a dozen times. That was just one of the ways that an animated, and according to every single newspaper headline today, a feisty joe biden used his state of the union to kickoff, officially, this years general election. To reset his campaign and to kill the narrative that biden is too old and not up to the job. Today the Biden Campaign was hot out of the gates with plans. Transfer barnstorming and blanketing the airwaves. Moving the troops to the battlefront. Many, many plans. The president kicked off a Campaign Blitz with a rally in pennsylvania, where he and the first lady stopped to eat pizza at the home of a Small Business owner. Then he headed for philadelphia where he hammered donald trump and the Republican Party on the issue of abortion. Angry republicans and donald trump want to pass a ban of the right to choose. Those bragging about overturning roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women in america. No clue. They found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot in 2022 and 2023. They will find out again in 2024. President biden follows up that speech with a campaign in atlanta, when following up to New Hampshire for another appearance on monday. Then on to michigan for another event on thursday. That to michigan stop will be the first test of the Biden Coalition in that state since 100,000 democratic primary voters picked, uncommitted to signify the war in gaza. But thats not all. At the same time the Biden Campaign is dispatching an army of surrogates to swing states. Kamala harris is in phoenix tonight for a reproductive rights event. That she will head to las vegas for an event focused on latino voters. They will be fanning out across the swing states. Tom vilsack is headed to arizona. Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg is going to philly. And Energy SecretaryJennifer Granholm is making stops in ohio, wisconsin and michigan. President bidens most aggressive next steps are ones that can be best measured in dollars and cents. The biden team has already been running ads targeting voters of color, like the Administration Support for historically black colleges. But the Washington Post reports today that the president is planning to launch a new 30 Million Ad Campaign with ads on tv, radio and digital platforms running across eight Battleground States. Some of those ads are designed specifically to target those key parts of the democratic coalition, including black, latino and asian voters. The post also reports that the Biden Campaign plans to hire at least 350 new staffers across those key Battleground States. That is more than triple the number of staffers currently employed on the Biden Campaign. So the surrogates are fanning out. The field teams are stacking up their clipboards and getting ready to knock on doors. The digital team is furiously Pasting Dark Brandon Laser Eyes onto every picture they can. And the Biden Campaign appears to be deploying every resource at its disposal to stop donald trump from becoming president ever again. Joining me now is the former key Medications Director for the clinton 2016 campaign and the obama white house. Also the cohost of the msnbc podcast, how to win 2024. Also with me as the great michelle goldberg, an opinion columnist. Its great to see you both tonight. Weve never been on together. History is being made this friday night. Jen, let me first start with you. I think it feels like a very possible moment for the Biden Campaign. There was a lot of progress last night and we feel like theres a lot of possibilities. Does a reset truly feeling something within bidens grasp right now . Yes. I was feeling pretty good on tuesday. When you come out of the primary season youre like, okay, biden has a ton of money. Trump is in the negative territory because of all of his legal problems. I was in detroit last friday. The Republican Convention was canceled because there were fist fights breaking out. When we came out of the primary season there is the uncommitted vote. But it was the uncommitted vote, not voting for dean phillips. It was clear to say donald trump is an existential threat. We dont want to do anything to make him president. So there really isnt a lot of antibiden energy to actually act on in the party. Or at least its moderated to not be nihilistic. Its moderated. Trump is getting 93 of his voters. Biden is getting 83 of his voters for 2020. That means biden has room to grow and trump is sort of tapping out. And then he had a great speech. Its not just that he can do the job well, he can speak about it well too. That just gives us reassurance. They have money, theyre spending it, they are deploying it. You are like, we are going to have the biden trump fight. Not the one we were worried about the last six weeks pick s you slept easy last night . No. Because of the katie brace thing. I couldnt puzzle out what was so disturbing about it. Its was like a half hour. It was brutal. Apologies on behalf of the news media. Michelle, i feel like the republicans made a Grave Miscalculation last night by trying to Bait Biden Into stumbling. Or i dont know what. He seems to relish the combat. I want to play a sound last night that exemplifies his fighting irish. In november my team began serious negotiations with a Bipartisan Group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with a tougher set of Border Security forms that weve ever seen. Itll think so . You like that bill. That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill. I will be darned. Thats amazing. Oh, you dont like that bill . Really . Then lets pass it. I thought that stuff just strengthened bidens hand. We sort of knew that. Im someone that is often extremely anxious about the Biden Campaign. Cold sweat terrifying sleepless nights. Without katie brace response pick even if there was no response. But we know, we saw this last year. Last year biden had these great moments when he was coming out on top and showing command of the room. Its not quite clear why republicans thought it would go differently for them this time unless they have really talked themselves into believing their own propaganda that he really is a walking corpse. I think thats right. So they ended up looking kind of soul and and caught off guard. James langford will be mouthing, its true. Thats the lead republican negotiator on the bill that his party is brewing. Unbelievable. Than you had a bunch of people in ridiculous costumes. They just looked like shambolic. Clouds is another. Clouds is the tonight word. I do think, jen, its a virtuous cycle. The stronger he is the stronger he gets. Even today on the Campaign Trail and in philadelphia. That wasnt the state of the union. That was just biden on the Campaign Trail and it was a Market Difference from how he sounded in previous weeks. I think he probably has a lot of selfconfidence. It doesnt mean that he will make mistakes and even made mistakes last night. But i think that i dont know that we should expect to see holes and prove out of the speech. I know the president very much wants that. Theres something going on in the world right now leader Favorability Ratings are really low in general. I dont know if that would really change. It does mean that reelected with low Favorability Ratings. But it shows us all that he is actually fine. He was as good, probably better last night and he was a year ago. And we have faith that the guy that is doing that in march is going to be an effective candidate all the way through. I also think the democrats have a core structural advantage, michelle. The party truly isnt about the individual. Its about the agenda. Thats what you see in these off year elections. Joe biden is not on the ballot and we can set aside how that might influence things. But its not a cult of personality the way the right is. Its of party that cares about reproductive rights and fundamental institutional freedoms. And a host of other things that have nothing to do with the guy in charge, except for the fact he is implementing them. That actually cuts both ways. You dont have this incredibly impassioned following that is going to turn out for donald trump. Not a majority certainly. But a solid core. You will have the in the same way. Can i do think there is something to energy. You need energy on a campaign to drive along uncommitted voters. Occasional voters. Voters who werent necessarily plugged in. In as much as there is a sense of excitement and momentum it really helps. I remembered the obama campaign. The people felt passionately committed to this man really helped. This time you are going to substitute a passionate commitment to issues. Its why theyve made abortion, even though joe biden doesnt want to say the word abortion, but its why reproductive rights are so front and center in this campaign. We have seen that is something people will turn out for over and over again. Thats also the point of the surrogates. They do have to get the message out that the Biden Campaign is bigger than biden. Its about these issues. And if he has affective surrogates. Tom vilsack. He got a Big Shout Out from you tonight. Thats what we do in this program. The idea that the Biden Campaign is a listing, an artist, messengers. One would hope and assume that would extend beyond just cabinet secretaries. I have never seen the party this united. Rashida tlaib feels very passionately about wanting a permanent ceasefire in gaza. She held up a small side to protest. She did not disrupt the president. We all understand what the stakes are, even as we are concerned about individual issues. I think the party is united. There is a very effective cabinet that is well known because a lot of them ran for president themselves. Phenomenal governors. Georgia, nevada, arizona. I was making michigan and wisconsin one word. And pennsylvania. We want tough phrases like we had in 2022. Fresh battle, ready to go back in again. It wasnt just biden. It was his big tent. But i do feel proud of him from his performance last night. And not just because he got through it so well and was combative. We were laughing about that earlier. He was President Biden. He had stepped out from the shadow of the man he worked for. He stepped Out Of The Shadow of the man of trump that he succeeded. And you can see, he has a real theory. Hes middleclass joe. He wants to bring the middle class back. Only he has the experience to lead. Could be the free leader of the world in this really difficult time because of how much hes been doing this for 50 years. You have an algeria gandhi reference in your back pocket. Its so hard. What he inherited and went through. Now you are like, there he is. Resident joe biden with a real theory of how to govern. A real vision of america. And optimistic at a time when even young people find it hard to be picked by an older person is like, ive seen us come back from worse. It makes you feel optimistic too. Perhaps youll sleep better tonight, my friend. Certain bad things are in the rearview. My friends, lets do it again sometime soon. Absolutely. Its great to have you on the show. We have a lot to get to this evening as donald trump makes over the Republican Party, installing his personal pics to party leadership, including his daughterinlaw. What happens now . Thats next. And later, fan boy meets strongman. We will talk about the right wing thing coming up. Hes the boss. 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