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RECAP & FACT-CHECK OF PRES. BIDEN'S STAE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: Biden's claim about Black prosperity in the SOTU clashes with reality

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by Mona Austin  (TSN): "The state of the Union is strong and getting stronger," the 46th Pres. of the United States Joe Biden said in his third address to the nation on March 7, 2024.  In a FOX News interview afterward the  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson rebuffed  the president's diagnosis of the nation saying (figuratively) that the health of the USA is not strong and "everyone knows it." Within the next 24 hours Biden maintained the advantage by kicking off a tour to go sell his massage, starting in Philadelphia.  In what felt like a campaign rally, Biden fiercely defended his record addressing a potpourri of problems ranging from the economy to the border crisis in his third State of the Union Address. He energetically rebuffed notions that he has been a do-nothing leader from the moment he stood on the speaker's dais. Biden did not allow Johnson to make the traditional introduction, turf-marking behavior that signified his control and put the chamb...