State of the Union

President Trump claimed credit for a “great American comeback” in a speech to Congress on Tuesday night, boasting of a robust economy, contrasting his successes with the records of his predecessors and projecting optimism in the face of a monthslong Democratic effort to force him from office.

Democrats used a rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night to refocus the national spotlight on the party’s policy platforms, a pivot from the impeachment narrative that has dominated the headlines of the past half-year.

President Trump will stride Tuesday night into the House chamber where he was impeached just 48 days earlier to deliver his annual State of the Union address, seizing the dais on the cusp of acquittal by the Senate to position himself to fight for a second term.