• Our representative survey, comprised of 43 Democrats, 42 Republicans and 69 independent voters, indicates that Tuesday night did little to advance Biden’s political cause and provided more sad proof of America’s hardening tribal rivalries.
• The panel evaluated key moments of the speech and recorded their reactions using equipment that tracked their feedback. In the video clips below, the feelings of Democrats are shown as a blue line, Republicans in red, and independents in green. The higher or lower the line trends reflects the relative intensity of their reactions.
• In a troubling sign for Biden’s likely designs on the White House in 2024, he failed to win over independents and sometimes even Democrats winced when the commander-in-chief slipped through some of his remarks.

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