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Meridith McGraw

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WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

But he

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

his call for that was pretty quickly ignored.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

And there were some testy exchanges between progressive Democrats Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

And they heckled Trump several times, especially when Trump was talking about his immigration policies and when he pointed to allegations of fraud.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

in Minnesota.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

At one point, Omar yelled out liar and Trump called them crazy.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

Well, the person delivering the Democrats' official response was Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

And she's a moderate.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

She won last year's Virginia election really focusing on affordability and a cost-focused message.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

And she really went hard on Trump for failing, she said, to address affordability.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

We all know the answer.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

And I think it's sort of a preview of the kind of messaging that we're going to see from Democrats towards Trump and Republicans going into the midterms.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

Well, you know, President Trump really is a showman, and there were surprise guests and awards that were given out throughout the speech.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

He had also some pretty heartwarming moments.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

There was the men's U.S.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

hockey team who just won the gold medal, who flew in for the State of the Union, and at one point the chamber was chanting USA.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

USA!

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

The president gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the hockey goalie.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

There was some bipartisan applause for a line he had about stopping insider trading by members of Congress.

WSJ What’s News
Voters and Trump See a Very Different Economic Reality

But I thought a really nice moment was when he gave the Medal of Honor to the helicopter pilot who was wounded during Maduro's capture, but also a 100-year-old kid