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

Down in Texas, I’m tracking some of the candidates who have endorsed the Big Lie (that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which is not true). Rep. Pat Fallon, who voted to overturn the results of that election, is leading in the GOP primary for Texas’s 4th District with 59 percent of the vote, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, another member of Congress who voted to overturn the election — Rep. Lance Gooden — is uncontested in the 5th District.

Julia, it’s certainly helpful for us as observers. But I wonder if it’ll just be too easy for writeups on the State of the Union to mention the multiple Democratic responses as evidence that the party is in a particularly high state of disarray, even if that’s not the case.

Now that the State of the Union is over, the rebuttals can begin. Earlier tonight, I wrote a defense of the many rebuttals that’ll now happen. The president can lay out an ambitious agenda. But it needs Congress to pass. Seeing how others, including fellow Democrats, across the ideological spectrum respond to the president gives us a better sense of what the legislative agenda might actually look like.