Watch: Joe Biden delivers State of the Union address
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch as Joe Biden delivers the president’s annual State of the Union address.
As is customary, the president will be flanked by the House speaker, Mr McCarthy, and his vice president, Kamala Harris, as he delivers his speech to the assembled members of the House and Senate, with family, friends and specially invited guests looking down from the balcony of the lower chamber.
Mr Biden is expected to highlight the policy and legislative successes of his administration’s first two years and make an implicit campaign pitch as he plans another run for the White House in 2024.
The parties already invited to attend this year’s event include RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, and Brandon Tsay, the hero of the Monterey Park mass shooting.
Despite Mr Biden’s success during the 2022 midterm elections – where Democrats actually picked up a seat in the Senate and staved off a red wave in the House of Representatives – polls continue to show the nation is less than excited about the prospect of another term for the incumbent, who turned 80 in November.
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