There was plenty of cheering in the press box after President Joe Biden's combative State of the Union address. Many pundits rushed to declare that the event had altered the course of Biden's flagging re-election campaign.
"If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe Biden who shows up for the rest of the campaign, you're not going to have any more of those weak-kneed pundits suggesting he's not up to running for re-election," wrote Ezra Klein in the Sunday New York Times. Klein is at least engaging in a little self-deprecating wink there: The link in that sentence points readers to his own call, less than a month ago, for Biden to step aside.
