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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Is Walling Off the GOP
The president isn’t able to persuade most Americans to get on board with his immigration agenda.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via ... Some Democrats Actually Liked What They Heard From Trump
High-profile progressives and party leadership panned the president’s calls for unity. But a group of the newest House lawmakers saw an opening.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How the Women of the House Flipped the State of the Union Script
It was the most unexpected moment of an otherwise dully divisive evening: a group of lawmakers taking a speech that wasn’t about them and insisting that in fact it was.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump Started His Reelection Campaign Last Night
“He committed to build a wall,” Steve Bannon said. “What’s not to like?”
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Reuters Trump Shows Why He Can’t Be Counted Out
In his State of the Union address, the president returned to the themes he stressed in 2016, reminding Americans why he remains a formidable candidate.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Stopping HIV Would Require an Entirely Different Trump
The president said he wants to eradicate the virus. That would mean a radical reversal of his policy and rhetoric.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Doubles Down
In his State of the Union address, the president had the option of reaching out. He chose to stay the course.
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Associated Press Stacey Abrams’s New Strategy for Democrats
In her response to the president’s State of the Union address, the former Georgia legislator pushed voting rights to the heart of her party’s agenda.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via ... Trump’s Call for Unity Was Never Going to Be Real
In a long and sometimes strange State of the Union address, the president exalted bipartisanship—without displaying a strategy, or a will, for achieving it.
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AP Trump’s Revealing Immigration Ad Lib
Is the president ready to strike a compromise deal?
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Leah Millis / Reuters Read Stacey Abrams’s Rebuttal to the State of the Union Address
The former candidate for Georgia governor is considered a rising star in the Democratic Party.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Read President Trump’s Second State of the Union Address
The speech comes as Congress is trying to prevent a second government shutdown.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Weak Case Against Investigating Trump
The president claimed in his State of the Union address both that bipartisan legislation is impossible if he is subjected to partisan investigations—and that he has already signed several important bipartisan bills into law.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The State of the President
Americans don’t need anyone else to tell them how the country is doing. So Tuesday's address is really a checkup on Trump.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump’s Hollow Call for Unity
A president who disdains acting presidential is unlikely to achieve much by relying on convention.
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John Bazemore / AP Why Democrats Picked Stacey Abrams to Deliver Their Trump Counterpunch
The decision to tap Abrams for their State of the Union response reflects the importance of this year’s address to the party.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Blame Democrats for the State of the Union Circus
The tradition has mutated into something bigger, dumber, and more dysfunctional than the Framers ever could have imagined.
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Will McNamee / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... The (Annotated) State of the Union
A former White House speechwriter poses the key questions about the speech, and annotates its text.
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Will McNamee / Getty / Zak Bickel / ... Trump Is Making 2018 Much Harder for Republicans
The three main ways the president is shaping congressional races, as seen in his first State of the Union
