Well, the instapolls came in and the verdict was so in favor of Trump that a huge chunk of Harris voters had to admit the speech was pretty great.
Really, really reat, actually. The poll numbers are better than I can remember for any president’s speech to a joint session of Congress.
The Brad Parscale axiom was that when you’re explaining you’re losing, but when Trump is entertaining, he’s winning—74% of speech watchers, per CBS/YouGov, called the speech exactly that. pic.twitter.com/7AtzALWLlM
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) March 5, 2025
It’s hard to say how much the reaction is skewed by the fact that when Republicans are in office they are more likely to watch, and vice-versa. But the speech was objectively superb, the emotional moments were all highs and no lows, and the only people who could have been actually replelled by…