Five takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union address

President Biden delivered his final State of the Union before the 2024 election on Thursday evening.

It was a pivotal moment — a rare opportunity to speak unmediated to an American public that, right now, holds the president in low esteem.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance with just 40 percent approving, according to the polling average maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ. 

Biden is a slight underdog in Nove...