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The President of the United States, Joe Biden, delivers the State of the Union address in Congress this Thursday.
In it he takes stock of his mandate as president, in what somehow becomes a large campaign rally in which his re-election is partly at stake.
Biden addresses topics of all kinds in a long speech.
Foreign policy, immigration, economy, abortion... One of the star announcements has already been anticipated: the United States plans an "emergency" military mission to establish, in collaboration with other allies, a temporary port on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza to the entry of humanitarian aid by sea.
References to Donald Trump and Republicans are another dish on the menu.
The speech comes after a Super Tuesday in which both Biden and Trump have swept and are scheduled for the presidential elections on November 5.
The reply is provided by Alabama Senator Katie Britt.
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"From president to president," the video says.
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Biden asks citizens to follow the speech
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has asked citizens to follow the State of the Union address this Thursday.
In addition to the media, it will be broadcast on the White House website, which will also disseminate it through social networks.
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Biden is photographed with members of Congress, in last year's speech.
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Large and captive audience
Biden faces one of the largest, if not the largest, audiences he will face this election year tonight.
These are not the numbers from decades ago, but the audience tuning in to the speech is among the largest television audiences of the year.
These are numbers that are far from those of NFL games.
Last year, the speech averaged 27.3 million viewers.
The year before, it averaged 38.2 million viewers.
That's not counting the millions of views that continue each day and in the following days on social networks.
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Last year, the State of the Union address came weeks after a Chinese balloon flew over the United States, sparking a serious diplomatic conflict between the two superpowers.
For this reason, some of the most prominent messages referred to China.
There were also many other topics of interest.
In this chronicle we told it last year.
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The youngest senator responds to the oldest president
Tradition dictates that someone chosen by the other side respond to the presidential speech on Thursday.
And that he does it, furthermore, away from the Capitol.
In this case, the chosen one is Alabama Senator Katie Boyd Britt.
She has only been in office for a year, and at 42 she is the youngest of the 100 US senators.
She represents, therefore, the replacement of the Republican Party.
“At this defining moment in our country's history, it is time for the next generation to step forward and preserve the American dream for our children and grandchildren,” Britt said in a statement to congressional leaders in which he confirmed that She would give the answer.
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US Capitol Police officers stand guard outside the Capitol ahead of US President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington.
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The speech, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, plans to leave the White House at 8:25 p.m. Eastern time in the United States (7:25 p.m. in Mexico City and 2:25 a.m. in mainland Spain).
Just over half an hour later, at 9:00 p.m. local time, the speech is scheduled to begin.
At the Capitol there is a strong security deployment waiting for the president, who will walk down Pennsylvania Avenue accompanied by the First Lady, Jill Biden, and the Second Gentleman, Douglas Emhoff.
As this is a joint session of Congress, it will be presided over by both the President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (who is doing so for the first time), and the Vice President, Kamala Harris, who serves as President of the Senate.
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Biden at last year's State of the Union address / Jacquelyn Martin / REUTERS
Biden plays it safe in the State of the Union speech
He has only just begun the campaign, but no rally on his path in search of re-election as president will have greater consequences than the one that Joe Biden plans to give this Thursday in Washington in front of a few hundred people.
It will be in the Capitol, when he fulfills his annual constitutional obligation to report to Congress on the state of the Union.
Although it is not really a rally, but a speech.
In it, Biden plays his game in front of millions of viewers in the United States and also around the world.
Read the preview to the State of the Union address here.
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Welcome to the State of the Union Address
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, delivers the State of the Union address in Congress this Thursday.
EL PAÍS correspondents in the United States will report the highlights live, along with the video broadcast of the intervention.
The speech will serve Biden to take stock of his management and try to convince voters for re-election in the November presidential elections, in which he is scheduled to meet Donald Trump.
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