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President Trump's 2019 State Of The Union And Democratic Response - Annotated

Annette Elizabeth Allen for NPR

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday February 5th after a delay due to the government shutdown. The Democratic response was delivered by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.  The NPR Politics team annotated each speech which you can read below.

State Of The Union speech by President Donald Trump annotated - 

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Democratic response by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams annotated - 

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