12 Mar 2024

USA correspondent Ron Elving

From Nine To Noon, 10:48 am on 12 March 2024
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 7: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the Capital building on March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. This is Biden's final address before the November general election.   Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

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Ron Elving has the takeaways from President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, and the highly controversial Republican response.

And a weekend of dueling rallies have unfolded in the state of Georgia, between President Biden and rival presidential candidate Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the first of former President Trump's criminal trials may be just two weeks away - but he's once again seeking to delay it.

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.