seeing president joe biden take the dais in the house of representatives to deliver his second state of the union address to a joint session of congress. and the stakes are extremely high. it comes after a year when women saw their rights to their own bodies taken away. books and lessons about black history and lgbtq folks are being banned, and very real threats to democracy are still looming large. this is an opportunity for president biden to speak directly to the american people about where we are as a country and to set the tone for what the next two years of his term will look like. biden is expected to tout his administration s accomplishments with an emphasis on the strong economy, super low unemployment, and receding inflation, while also making a renewed call for bipartisanship despite a divided guess. in a just released excerpt from the president s prepared speech, biden is expected to say, quote, to my republican friends, if we could work together in the last congr
will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? let s move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we re several hours in now. this is very interesting here. the seventh district russell frey is donald trump s candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a decade. 99% of the vote in. we re still tallying the final votes. the 50% plus one you avoid a run-
Police brutality issue. the congressional black caucus, i spoke with senior leadership there today, and they told me they re very confident about the language they re going to hear from the president on this particular issue that puts it not just an issue for black americans but an issue for all americans. that s why something needs to be done about it. part of what he has to do is block any thought of anyone running against him. part of what he can do with this, i should say, is this is a way to say i have all of these constituencies onhand and some of the people coming, raphael warnock is bringing in somebody who benefitted from that insulin bill. so there are pieces of it, people who are bringing victims of gun violence, how does he do a speech that essentially says i got this? i cannot only do these next two years but don t even think about coming for me in a primary? i think he needs to do a combination of what we have all been talking about. speaking to who he s fighting for,
Looking out for them. maybe it s because i spent my life not in politics but in the parish. i tend to think of this, you know, in the way a shepherd does, a pastor does, which is why i m trying to get an insulin bill passed right now which would cap the cost of insulin out of pocket cost to $35 per person per month. that is because i ve stood with people as they ve struggled with these issues, they had to go to dialysis, dealt with an amputation. and my job is to represent the people who hired me to represent them. that is the way every single day. it still blows my mind i am able to do this work. after all, i was born a poor kid, grew up in public housing. and somehow in part through good federal public policy and i talk about this in my book. you have to give me a chance to talk about your book. leave time for that. yeah.
And again the current president recent polling shows joe biden is losing support among black americans. his job approval dropping from 87% to 67% within the span of a year. that is among african americans, black americans. if he is losing faith with black voters does that bode well for his re-election chances and the people who he could help or hurt down ticket? don, i think the problem in american politics right now is that even the conversation in a time as serious as this is too much about the politicians. it is about who s up and who s down. who s in and who s out. meanwhile ordinary, hard working families are wondering who is looking out for them. maybe it s because i spent my life not in politics but in the parish. i tend to think of this, you know, in the way a shepherd does, a pastor does, which is why i m trying to get an insulin