What Went Down At Biden’s State Of The Union And Texas’s Primary Election

Meanwhile, back in Texas’s 15th District, Monica De La Cruz is still leading the Republican primary with about 58 percent of the vote with 59 percent reporting. The GOP continues to elect far fewer women to political office than Democrats, even though in 2020 they elected more women than ever before. Whether that progress will continue is an open question, but De La Cruz winning a competitive primary to compete in a competitive general election are the kinds of things to look for if you want to understand if a party is prioritizing female candidates.

Welp, that’s all the State of the Union polling for tonight! Stay tuned for more Texas primary coverage — I’m off to my burrow.

Tonight’s speech felt to me like Biden trying to rekindle some of the optimism and hopefulness that Democrats felt when he took office. He talked about a lot of different topics but I keep thinking about that one line — “It’s going to be okay.” Clearly, a lot of Americans are uncertain about that and Biden knows it.