Joe Biden‘s New York fundraiser this evening with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is expected to raise more than $25 million, an enormous haul for a one-evening event.
08.03.2024 - 21:19 / deadline.com
About a half hour after Joe Biden finished up a give-em-hell type of State of the Union speech, he was still in the House chamber, shaking hands, taking selfies and chatting up other senators in candid moments that were caught on C-SPAN. The president lingered for so long that some photographers joked that soon the House chaplain may show up to give the next morning’s prayer.
Finally, House Speaker Mike Johnson, still on the rostrum, called an end to the proceedings, and the TV lights dimmed. Biden got the signal that it was time to go, but even then it took him a few more minutes to exit.
The speech and even Biden’s endurance in its aftermath should have provided some reassurance to Democrats fretting about Biden’s age and agility in recent months — as one prominent Hollywood backer put it to me the other day, the term is “freaking out.” The positive reaction to Biden’s speech, focused on his energy and vigor, was an indication that it was not so much what Biden said as how he said it, particularly when he responded to the occasional heckle or name checked individual members, like Lindsey Graham, who were left largely to just smile.
That was true inside the chamber, as covering a SOTU is far different than watching the spectacle play out on TV. Even as lights are turned up, cameras are freed from their typical fixed positions and a boom captures the cinematic sweep of the space, the coverage can miss some moments or clarify fleeting feelings of confusion.
Journalists are seated in the press gallery, located just above POTUS, the vice president and the speaker at the rostrum. It’s great for watching members and their reactions, the stone-faced silence of the Supreme Court or the occasional outburst in the visitors
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