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5. Sanders and progressives plan three responses to the State of the Union

By David Weigel January 29 at 3:02 PM

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As Democrats announced last week, third-term Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) will give their official response to the president’s Tuesday night speech, delivering it from his home state and skipping the pomp in Congress. Virginia Del. Elizabeth Guzman, a member of the Democrats’ 2017 landslide class in the state legislature, will give a Spanish-language response — also official.

There’ll be a response from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), too, differing from the official speeches in that the senator, for the second year, will give a retort to the speech itself. (Typically, respondents write their speeches ahead of time with only vague ideas of what’s in the presidential address.)

And there will be at least two more progressive responses. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will respond to Trump at the top of a BET news special, and former Maryland congresswoman Donna F. Edwards, who’s running for Prince George’s County executive, will deliver an address on behalf of the Working Families Party. All of them are to Kennedy’s left on a few issues, such as marijuana legalization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/29/sanders-and-progressives-plan-three-responses-to-the-state-of-the-union/