Tonight President Joe Biden will address the U.S. and the world in his State of the Union speech. What may the President tell us, after what has been a fairly bad first year in office? U.L.-Monroe political science professor Joshua Stockley says Mr. Biden needs a win right now. “His administration is suffering from a series of maladies; ranging from inflation, the third year of the pandemic and then Russia invaded Ukraine and we had a global humanitarian crisis,” says Stockley.
Under Biden’s leadership, the U.S. has seen skyrocketing fuel prices and runaway inflation, a disastrous pull-out from Afghanistan, an unsecured southern border and now the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Stockley says the President would be wise to use tonight’s speech as an opportunity for some course correction, “to hopefully give him a “shot in the arm” … maybe get a little momentum going, legislatively, to tackle tough domestic issues and also from a foreign policy perspective.”
Members of the U.S. House and Senate will be there tonight, along with other dignitaries and invited guests, to hear what Biden has to say. Dr. Stockley says he cannot predict what the president may say, but he really needs tonight’s address to “move the needle” with American and the world. “Truthfully, I think Biden needs to hit some sort of symbolic home run. He really needs to rally the party behind him. His poll numbers are historically low.”
Recent polls have Biden’s approval rating in the low 40’s.
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