President Joe Biden delivered his 2024 State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday night. During the 67-minute speech, Biden spoke on a wide range of issues, from the border and the economy to abortion and foreign policy relating to Israel and Ukraine.
The president made numerous claims, many of them contentious and sharply partisan. The Daily Signal fact-checked many of those claims to assess whether they were truthful and accurate.
‘Dagger at the Throat of American Democracy’
Biden compared the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s.
“Insurrectionists stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy,” he said.
“Jan. 6 and the lies about the 2020 election, and the plots to steal the election, posed the gravest threat to our democracy since the Civil War,”…
