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Tuesday night’s State of the Union address may leave a lot of people wishing that presidents would fulfill their constitutional duty to report to Congress in writing—rather than creating a visual spectacle. A written message was good enough for President Thomas Jefferson and all of his successors until Woodrow Wilson. And there’s reason to believe that this week’s edition will not exactly be a model of political decorum. Recently this column noted the admirable effort by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) to persuade his Democratic colleagues to behave themselves while President Donald Trump is speaking. Unfortunately it seems that Mr. Jeffries has not been entirely successful. Josephine Walker reports at Axios on the disparate approaches planned by the donkeys: Some plan to
deliver direct addresses or attend counter-rallies, including Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Others, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), will likely skip the speech altogether. And some, like Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.), might attend and cause distractions, defying House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ warning against disruptions.
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