The President of the United States, Joe Biden will on March 7, deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress, Washington has confirmed.
“In this moment of great challenge for our country,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to Biden posted on X, “it is my solemn duty to extend this invitation for you to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, March 7, 2024, so that you may fulfill your obligation under the US Constitution to report on the state of our union.”
“Looking forward to it, Mr. Speaker,” Biden replied on the social media website formerly known as Twitter.
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The address will take place later than usual this year, coming after the March 5 “Super Tuesday,” a crucial stage when both parties hold nominating contests in several states ahead of the November presidential election.
Africa Today News, New York reports that in the past, the State of the Union has usually taken place in late January or early February.
Recall that Biden had on Friday branded his likely challenger in November a “loser” and “sick” in a speech on the eve of the third anniversary of the deadly January 6 Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters.
“He’s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power,” 81-year-old Democrat told supporters, alternating between whispers and furious shouts as he went hard on the man he beat in 2020.
Not only had the twice-impeached former president instigated the Capitol attack, but the tycoon and his followers were still embracing “political violence” ahead of the 2024 vote, said Biden.
Biden chose a symbolic location for the speech near Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, the historic site where George Washington rallied American forces fighting their British colonial rulers nearly 250 years ago.