State of the Union an Audition Biden Must Pass

Now that Trump has won the Republican nomination in resounding fashion with his smashing Super Tuesday victories, Joe Biden is facing increasingly panicked criticism from Democrats who dread a return of Donald Trump.

Tonight's State of the Union speech assumes the nature of an audition Biden must pass to continue his race for re-election.

Democrats worry that he can't deliver a speech, even with a nearby teleprompter, without stumbling and screwing it up.

Tonight therefore poses a test Biden must pass to be the Democratic candidate for president.

Michelle Obama, the leading alternative to Biden, issued a bland statement yesterday saying that she is not a candidate this year.

But that statement shouldn’t convince anyone.

She did not deliver it in person but through her director of communications.

We could not look into her eyes to judge her real intent.

We know that she, Hillary Clinton, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and the rest are all for Biden until they are not.

But the plain math of Super Tuesday shows that any Democrat who is willing to bet his bottom dollar on Biden is delusional.

With seemingly degenerative mental and physical conditions, Biden will only get worse.

So the State of the Union speech gives Biden a needed chance to assert that he can complete a simple English sentence.

His problem is only compounded by the fact that his audience won’t believe much of what he says even if he does manage to get it out.

Illegal immigration has become the major issue facing our nation. Nobody is going to believe that Biden will take the kind of necessary steps to protect the border.

Nor are his likely celebratory comments about his success in taming inflation going to be greeted with any credibility.

With inflation still cited as the leading problem we face by one voter in three, his claims are only received credibly by his top — and top paid — economic advisers.

Biden has to pass his audition tonight; that means being able to quell doubters and run credibly for president.

Dick Morris is a former presidential adviser and political strategist. He is a regular contributor to Newsmax TV. Read Dick Morris' Reports — More Here.