For all those media types who were casting Biden’s State of the Union performance as “fiery” and applauding him like a bunch of trained seals… so, how about that Pennsylvania speech on Friday evening!

Less than a day after being lauded for the SOTU, Joe and Jill Biden showed up in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The campaign is apparently in full kickoff mode post-Super Tuesday, especially now that Donald Trump has been formally designated the presumptive nominee by the RNC. In Pennsylvania, Biden was essentially supposed to give a highlight reel of the SOTU speech, with an extended introduction by Jill. And it was EXTENDED. Jill spoke for nearly seven minutes after being introduced, with Joe standing off to the side, looking like an obedient mannequin. Once Joe got to the podium, though… oh my.

Tonight's Biden speech in PA may be a new high-water mark for his senility. Holy crap, is it bad.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 9, 2024

The entirety of the event was broadcasted by the campaign on their YouTube channel. Joe Biden starts speaking at 10:55, and begins the speech with the same line he used at the State of the Union: “I think I should go home now!”

Biden’s speech lasted about 25 minutes, so less than half the time that he spoke on Thursday night, with more than double the gaffes. He started off by saying that he was up late after the State of the Union, and then referred to January 6th as “July the 6th.” He immediately corrected himself, but – what on earth. Hammering on January 6th has become a core part of the Democrat strategy, and here’s old Joe, gaffing and using a different month that begins with the same letter. Fine, he self-corrected. But he kept going, and it was a train wreck. The entire quote, straight from Joe Biden’s mouth, goes like this:

“Last night in the U.S. Capitol, the same building where our freedoms came under assault on July the 6th – excuse me, January the 6th – we talked about another Alabama. Fourteen months ago, she and her husband welcomed a baby girl thanks to another Alabamanan – thanks to the miracle of IVF. She scheduled treatments to have a second child, but the Alabama Supreme Court shut down IVF – treatments. Across the state, unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. She was told her dream would have to wait. What her family has gone through should never have happened. And folks, you know why it happened? I’ll tell you why. One reason. Donald Trump.”

What Joe Biden was apparently trying to do here was give the Cliff Notes version of the SOTU, where he pointed out Latorya Beasley of Birmingham, Alabama, whose IVF transfer was apparently canceled at the last minute due to the fertility clinic’s confusion over what would be legally allowed after the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling regarding treating embryos as human beings and if they are destroyed, the person responsible can be held liable for wrongful death. The court case had nothing to do with abortion – the case revolved around a patient apparently getting into a storage part of a storage facility where frozen embroys were being kept, somehow getting access to frozen embroys, and destroying the embryos when they were dropped on the floor (as seen on pages 4 and 5 of the ruling). The would-be parents (who were uninvolved in the entire incident) then sued the clinic for wrongful death of the embryos, and the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in their favor. Again, this had ZERO to do with abortion policy or Alabama’s abortion laws. This was about fertility clinics panicking and temporarily halting all IVF transfers until their legal representation got back to them. And while Latorya Beasley’s personal story is obviously a difficult one, her embryos were not destroyed, Alabama has clarified the law and IVF procedures have begun again. But Joe Biden is trying to conflate this Alabama case to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. However, there’s another problem with Biden retelling this story in Pennsylvania. HE NEVER MENTIONS LATORYA BEASLEY’S NAME. He gaffes the month when tossing in a casual reference to January 6th, and if Beasley’s name was on the teleprompter, he just sailed right over it. No one watching this speech, who wasn’t familiar with the SOTU speech, would have ANY idea what the hell Biden was talking about. But Biden and the Democrats are hellbent on using abortion as a campaign platform plank, so it doesn’t matter if Biden gaffes, right?

Uh, where is he going to “restore” Roe v. Wade, again?
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1766269327324397675
The “send me to Congress” line CANNOT have been written on the teleprompter, but the follow-up part about taking back Congress probably was. It would be VERY illustrative if we could get our hands on the transcript of this speech to see exactly where Biden and the teleprompter get into their fights. And they had another doozy of a fight later.

BIDEN v. TELEPROPTER: "We added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history!" pic.twitter.com/z2NBOLeE7h

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 9, 2024

WHOOPS. No, that’s probably not what was on the teleprompter.

Apparently, this SOTU-lite speech may be the stump speech that Biden delivers all weekend long.

After Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden will visit Georgia on Saturday, New Hampshire on Monday, Wisconsin on Wednesday and Michigan on Thursday. Harris is visiting Arizona on Friday and Nevada on Saturday.

Despite what the Democrats believe, the truth is that the State of the Union speech did not go over as well as they think, with none other than the Washington Post commenting that the hype was not matching the numbers. And in what has to be a truly hard moment for the media, the fact-checkers at the Washington Post, CNN, and FactCheck.org have all had to point out some “misleading” claims that Biden made during the SOTU. But this is the hand the Democrats are choosing to play.

Biden’s performance in Pennsylvania was not nearly as juiced as his SOTU speech – and many noticed. With all this upcoming travel, will Joe have to sit in his bacta tank on Air Force One to keep him regenerating long enough to keep giving this speech in multiple states? How much Red Bull can an 81 year old man safely drink? Where’s Hunter, and did he bring his stash? And how early will a “lid” be called on the non-campaign travel days in order to let Grandpa rest and eat ice cream?

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click