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Joe Biden is going to find himself canceled after these remarks about Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) rebuttal of his speech to Congress. Biden was able to muster the energy to stay up past 7 PM and deliver an hour-long address where he pretty much outlined an agenda that will send this nation spiraling toward economic death. Of course, this old man lied up there. It was truly one of the most boring spectacles in recent memory—and the ratings showed that. Scott delivered a solid rebuttal. It could have been more "stab in the back and twist" regarding aggressiveness and tone,...

A CNN poll of viewers who watched President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress found that 51% of them had a “very positive” reaction — less than the 57% who had a “very positive” reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech in 2017. Moreover, Biden underperformed Trump even though the audience for Wednesday night’s speech skewed Democratic. CNN reported: The 51% who had a very positive reaction to Biden’s speech is a bit more muted than reaction to the first address from other recent presidents. Barack Obama had the strongest first outing of the last four presidents, with 68% saying...

Because nothing makes more sense than socialism: just ask a Democrat! Amidst all the Morning Joe gushing today over President Biden's radical plans as laid out in his address to Congress, the most frighteningly fact-defying was that by NBC contributor and left-wing activist Heather McGhee. McGhee twice claimed that Biden's plans are neither left nor right, but simply what is required to solve problems, saying "it takes government," "it takes collective action," government needs to "give" people various things, and Biden's intended vast expansion of government is simply "common sense. Get the rest of the story and view the video...

Chris Christie is once again accusing President Biden of lying, this time charging that the president is "not telling the truth" about the tax increases inside the sweeping spending proposal he’ll unveil on Wednesday night. Speaking hours before Biden’s first address in front of Congress, the former two-term GOP governor of New Jersey and 2016 Republican presidential candidate-turned-political analyst and pundit argued that the president is "not telling the truth to the American people to hide a socialist agenda."

34 million fewer people watched Joe Biden’s speech last night compared to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. Ratings show that 11.6 million watched Biden’s speech compared to 45.6 million who watched Trump’s first address to Congress in 2018. The lowest number of Americans who watched a Trump State of the Union throughout his term in office was 37 million. Biden barely managed to beat the viewership for this year’s Oscars (9.8 million), even though that set a new record low for the Academy Awards Biden’s speeches and public appearances have become notorious for their poor ratings and...

Many conservatives voiced skepticism about the 85% number quoted by CBS News following Joe Biden's speech. They were right to be skeptical. ================================================================== Following Joe Biden’s off speech before a reduced joint session of Congress yesterday, CBS News and YouGov released a poll showing 85% of Americans liked the speech and said it gave them hope for the future. This morning, progressives on Twitter were quite proud that their guy performed so well and that his message resonated. Allegedly. But conservatives were skeptical. Even if we ignore the near-impossibility of any speech by anyone appealing to 85% of a wide-ranging...

Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress drew 22.6 million viewers across seven major networks. That’s a drop of 47% from 43 million or so who tuned in to Donald Trump’s first speech to a joint session, on February. 28, 2017, across those seven networks. According to fast national numbers from Nielsen, ABC topped coverage with 4.03 million, followed by MSNBC with 3.94 million, NBC with 3.54 million, CBS with 3.37 million, CNN with 3.18 million, Fox News with 2.92 million and Fox with 1.63 million.

Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace said Wednesday night on his network’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s speech will be “popular” because after the coronavirus pandemic, people “now feel more trusting and more in need of government.” Wallace said, “I think this is going to be a popular speech with the American public. He offered a lot of stuff. Four trillion will buy a lot of stuff from millions of jobs to child care to community health centers, all kinds of stuff, community colleges. And the other thing that’s pretty popular is he said: You’re not going to have to pay...

Like that January inaugural address, last night’s TelePrompter reading by our China Sock Puppet will lead to the exact opposite of anything resembling the national unity that Biden promised to bring to the office into which he has been installed. Like pretty much any Democrat presidential address, it was a speech intentionally designed to divide us along racial and class lines. It was a pretty typical Democrat speech that appealed not to unity, but to envy, jealousy, resentment and ignorance-based rage, the kind of which we see played out on the burning streets of major, Democrat-run cities every night of...

Twitter allowed a racial slur about Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, to trend on its site for hours after he was attacked as an “Uncle Tim” for saying “America is not a racist country” in his rebuttal to President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress. The term began to trend on Twitter late Wednesday evening after Scott noted in his speech that he has been the subject of derogatory comments about his race because of his political views. It wasn’t until Thursday morning that the social media giant stopped the attacks from appearing in...

Following President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Fox News'sChris Wallace had nothing but good things to say, as he stated, "You know, I think this is going to be a popular speech with the American public. He offered a lot of stuff. Four trillion dollars will buy a lot of stuff from millions of jobs to child care to community health centers, all kinds of stuff, community colleges. The other thing that's pretty popular, he said, you're not going to have to pay for it. Big corporations are going to pay for it....

Wednesday Evening Biden proved he is beholden to the Progressive wing of the party. His speech was a cornucopia of dead on arrival ideas...Massive OverreachPresident Biden wants people to believe he is a moderate. The plan he presented to Congress and the nation Wednesday evening was more like a Progressive wish list.In case you missed it, here is the Transcript of Biden's Speech.I discussed pre-disclosed details yesterday in Biden to Propose a $1.8 Trillion "Family Plan" in a Prime Time AddressWednesday evening Biden added climate change, a $15 minimum wage, right to organize, gun control, paycheck fairness, defense spending, charging...

President Joe Biden urged Americans during his address to Congress Thursday not to fear government intervention in their lives, reminding them his administration is “We the people.” “It’s time we remembered that ‘We the people’ are the government. You and I,” Biden said, “not some force in a distant capital, not some powerful force that we have no control over. It’s us. It’s ‘We the people.

Biden supposedly got 81 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, yet the online reaction to his first presidential address to Congress on Wednesday night was not good for him. It doesn't appear to have been highly anticipated, based on how few Americans actually tuned into the live streams to watch him. And now a new CNN poll reveals that his first address underperformed President Donald Trump's from last year.

President Biden labeled terrorism by “white supremacists” the “most lethal terrorist threat” to the U.S., during his address to a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday.

Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” immediately following President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to the remarks with very disparaging terms. The South Carolina Republican said the speech had scared him. However, he spoke favorably of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who offered the Republican response. “Joe Biden scared the hell out of me,” he said. “He looked weak as commander in chief, and he embraced socialism. Tim Scott made me feel great about being a Republican, proud to be from South Carolina, and hopeful about my country. But he became public enemy number...

Joe Biden said during his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening that the Capitol storming on January 6 was the 'worst attack' on democracy since the Civil War. The claim immediately led to major backlash, especially from those on right-wing Twitter, who pointed to a slew of other tragedies in America between the 1860s and 2021 – like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Pearl Harbor, presidential assassinations and others. 'January 6 was worse than 9/11? Or Pearl Harbor?' Glenn Greenwald, a journalist and former attorney wrote in a Twitter thread.

President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress received a less enthusiastic reception than those of his immediate predecessors, according to a CNN instant poll of speech watchers. Roughly half of viewers, 51%, fell in the "very positive" reaction category. A chart showed that is a lower figure than was recorded for former Presidents Donald Trump in 2017, Barack Obama in 2009, and George W. Bush in 2001, whose "very positive" scores in the same poll were 57%, 68%, and 66%, respectively. More than 70% of speech watchers said the speech made them feel more optimistic as...

A designated survivor will not be chosen for President Biden’s joint address to Congress on Wednesday, and several Cabinet members will not attend the speech in person amid the ongoing pandemic. Usually, presidents designate a high-ranking official to stay in a secure location as they deliver their annual address to lawmakers in case of a catastrophe at the Capitol that kills the president and Cabinet officials in attendance. However, Biden’s speech this year will be limited to 200 lawmakers, Biden administration officials and staff due to limitations during the coronavirus pandemic. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Tuesday...