Jessica Tarlov

He said it could happen in the next couple of weeks, and then it happened, what, within 24 hours.

But he didn't make the case to the American people about it.

And the American people, no matter how they vote, do not want to go into war in the Middle East.

That is the common denominator now across the Republican, Democrats, and independents.

The foreign policy section was a bit blah to me, disappointing that on the four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he did not say, we stand with you, which I was reading some reporting that's what Zelensky wanted to see.

He didn't expect we're going to be sending the tomahawks that you desperately want, but he wanted to at least hear, we got you.

And did not get that.

He just said, I want to end this.

You know, I'm the peace president in those eight bullshit wars.

Right.

President Putin has an idea of how he'd like this to go.

And I don't really mind if we go that way.

I agree with you.

Like, this is a blip.

And State of the Unions have become a blip, generally speaking.

President Biden's last one mattered because it was the proof of life video.

So that took on a higher level of importance or salience than it would typically.

But also with how quickly the news cycle is moving and how Trump does things, I would expect if we were recording this pod tomorrow, it would be the third topic, right, that we would just touch on it versus the lead.

I do want to note CNN always does a snap poll of State of the Union watchers.

It skews towards the party in power.