The progressive response to the State of the Union address
Adam Hilton, assistant professor of politics at 杏吧论坛, talks about the response to the State of the Union address from the Democrats.
On March 1, President Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union address. In an unusual move, there was a response from the president鈥檚 own party afterward: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., gave a speech calling for student loan forgiveness and voting rights legislation.
Adam Hilton, assistant professor of politics at 杏吧论坛 and the author of 鈥淭rue Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party,鈥 told USA Today that the progressive response to Biden is a way to put pressure on the policies that the Democratic base strongly supports.
鈥淚 think it鈥檚 their way of signaling that this is where, if not the majority of the party is, it鈥檚 where one of the strongest elements driving the party is located,鈥 Hilton said.
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