Roughly 4 in 10 American adults felt optimistic about the annual State of the Union address ahead of the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, according to a new poll.
According to a Monmouth University poll conducted in late January and published on Monday, about 32 percent of Americans said the event is “somewhat strong,” while just 7 percent called the event “very strong.”
Nearly 60 percent of participants deemed the event “not too strong” or “not at all strong.”
The number of Americans who feel optimistic about the event’s strength has steadily declined over the past five years, from 55 percent in 2018 when former President Donald Trump was in office, to 39 percent in the current poll….