Former President Joe Biden stood before a South Carolina crowd on Friday and took aim at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address."Is he still talking?" Biden asked, to laughter

The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

Biden used the election-year speech to draw a sharp contrast between his administration’s accomplishments and priorities—from the border to the economy to Gaza—and those of his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump.

Trump was posting on social media into the dead of night in the hours following his war announcement, sharing a pair of messages about his loss to Biden.

President Joe Biden has an election-year message for frustrated voters: At least he’s trying. For those who think he isn’t doing enough to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion, Biden announced $800 million in new military support on Thursday.

While Democrats and their stenographers in mainstream media screamed about a fever-dream involving collusion between Russia and Trump, the Iranian regime deployed unnoticed election influence operations aimed at stopping Trump's election in back-to-back contests in 2020 and 2024.

Lest anyone forget, the Constitution says that “the times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives” is a function of state legislatures, unless Congress “make or