Co-Director Schickler quoted in KTVU2 story on Bay Area voter sentiments about high stakes State of the Union address

March 6, 2024

In the Fox KTVU article, Jana Katsuyama highlights slim margin in February polls between President Biden and Former President Trump, while highlighting some of the reasons for increasing dissatisfaction with each candidate's political bases. This slim margin adds more stakes to President Biden's State of the Union address, to which IGS Co-director Eric Schickler adds, "He's certainly going to convey a sense of himself as someone who works across the aisle, is not a sharp ideologue, and also committed to the norms of democracy,". The story continues to outline the ways that Bay Area lawmakers hope the speech "emphasizes the bipartisan efforts to get things done in Congress." To read the full story, click here.

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