http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/371623-simmons-ball-kennedy-topped-trump-for-state-of-the-union-performanceSimmons, Ball: Kennedy topped Trump for State of the Union performance
President Trump failed to impress with his State of the Union address, according to former Democratic adviser Jamal Simmons and Krystal Ball, president of the People's House Project.
"It's hard to grade Donald Trump, because he'll say one thing on the exam, but he'll do something completely different for the rest of the semester," Simmons told The Hill. "On the speech perhaps, it was a maybe a C or C+. He delivered it well. But by the time you see this, there may be another tweet out that completely contradicts what he said.
"I think Joe Kennedy definitely gets one of the highest marks when he gave the response," Simmons said. "It was definitely a little bit of a liberal speech, it was definitely a liberal call to arms. But he talked about really not having to choose between Americans. I think that's something that's incredibly important where we are today. We have a president who seems like he's always trying to make us choose between a small group of Americans ... and the wide group of all the rest of us who Democrats want to include in the American dream."
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