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These Are The Most-Searched-For EVs By Country

These Are The Most-Searched-For EVs By Country

The EV revolution has been in full swing over the last few years, with new electric vehicles reaching…

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These Are The Most-Searched-For EVs By Country

The EV revolution has been in full swing over the last few years, with new electric vehicles reaching milestones in range and affordability.

But as with traditional automobiles, countries around the world have different favorite models.

So which electric vehicle is each country’s inhabitants interested in?

As Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao details below, GRIDSERVE pulled together a database of the most searched-for electric vehicles by country in 2022.

Using Google Keyword Planner, they gathered the volume of online searches for 317 EVs across more than 200 countries and mapped the most popular results in each location.

The Most Googled Electric Vehicles By Country in 2022

Lexus’ first fully electric car, the Lexus RZ, was the most searched-for model in a whopping 47 countries, more than one-fifth of the entire dataset.

The car’s unusual steering—a yoke that isn’t physically connected to the tires—could certainly make it worth a quick Google to see what all the fuss is about.

The Tesla Model 3 came in strong at second place as the top search in 35 countries, with the Kia EV6 ranked third.

Here’s the full database of the most searched for EV in each country, along with the search volume.

Country / Territory Most-Searched EV Search Volume
???????? Afghanistan Lexus RZ 730
???????? Albania MG5 EV 7,590
???????? Algeria Tesla Model 3 9,860
???????? American Samoa Tesla Model 3 100
???????? Andorra Tesla Model 3 930
???????? Angola Porsche Taycan 840
???????? Anguilla Nissan Leaf 130
???????? Argentina IVECO eDaily 63,800
???????? Armenia Volkswagen ID.4 44,720
???????? Australia Tesla Model 3 538,900
???????? Austria Skoda Enyaq 220,100
???????? Azerbaijan Lexus RZ 9,600
???????? Bahamas Tesla Model 3 1,210
???????? Bahrain Lexus RZ 6,680
???????? Bangladesh Tesla Model 3 10,610
???????? Barbados Nissan Leaf 1,040
???????? Belarus Tesla Model S 14,480
???????? Belgium Chery QQ Ice Cream 304,200
???????? Belize Lexus RZ 490
???????? Bermuda BMW i3 620
???????? Benin VinFast VF 9 9,600
???????? Bhutan Hyundai IONIQ 5 1,140
???????? Bolivia Beijing EU5 3,800
???????? Bosnia and Herzegovina Rimac Nevera 13,280
???????? Botswana BMW iX 730
???????? Brazil Porsche Taycan 670,500
???????? British Virgin Islands Lexus RZ 140
???????? Brunei Lexus RZ 1,880
???????? Bulgaria BMW i3 24,500
???????? Burkina Faso VinFast VF 9 5,310
???????? Burundi VinFast VF 9 280
???????? Cambodia VinFast VF 9 7,400
???????? Cameroon Lexus RZ 9,920
???????? Canada Kia EV6 916,500
???????? Cape Verde Mazda MX 30 260
???????? Cayman Islands Tesla Model 3 470
???????? Central African Republic Lexus RZ 120
???????? Chad VinFast VF 9 370
???????? Chile VinFast VF e34 48,300
???????? China Tesla Model 3 10,200
???????? Colombia Tesla Model S 56,600
???????? Comoros Kia EV6 100
???????? Cook Islands Nissan Leaf 110
???????? Costa Rica BMW iX 13,090
???????? Croatia Rimac Nevera 60,700
???????? Cyprus Nissan Leaf 7,490
???????? Czech Republic Porsche Taycan 74,900
???????? DRC Lexus RZ 3,140
???????? Denmark Polestar 2 316,500
???????? Djibouti Tesla Model 3 230
???????? Dominica Lexus RZ 15,600
???????? Dominican Republic VinFast VF 9 15,600
???????? Congo Lexus RZ 3,140
???????? Timor-Leste Tesla Model 3 120
???????? Ecuador Chery QQ Ice Cream 22,000
???????? Egypt Volkswagen ID.4 29,690
???????? El Salvador Tesla Model 3 4,110
???????? Equatorial Guinea Lexus RZ 820
???????? Eritrea Tesla Model 3 50
???????? Estonia Hyundai IONIQ 5 12,120
???????? Eswatini BMW iX 210
???????? Ethiopia Volkswagen ID.4 10,940
???????? Faroe Islands Kia EV6 890
???????? Fiji Nissan Leaf 900
???????? Finland Polestar 2 210,900
???????? France Tesla Model 3 1,909,000
???????? French Guiana Arcfox Alpha-S 1,030
???????? French Polynesia Tesla Model 3 1,000
???????? Gabon Lexus RZ 1,100
???????? Gambia Lexus RZ 490
???????? Germany Tesla Model 3 1,954,000
???????? Georgia VinFast VF 9 21,500
???????? Ghana Lexus RZ 38,300
???????? Gibraltar Kia EV6 190
???????? Greece Tesla Model 3 90,600
???????? Greenland Subaru Solterra 630
???????? Guatemala Arcfox Alpha-S 5,660
???????? Guam Lexus RZ 1,200
???????? Guernsey Volkswagen ID.Buzz 630
???????? Guinea VinFast VF 9 9,600
???????? Guinea-Bissau Polestar 2 130
???????? Guyana Geometry EX3 2,180
???????? Honduras Tesla Model 3 4,350
???????? Hong Kong Tesla Model Y 122,200
???????? Hungary BMW i3 142,700
???????? Iceland Kia EV6 18,440
???????? India Tata Nexon 2,364,000
???????? Indonesia Wuling Air Ev 992,120
???????? Iraq Lexus RZ 4,530
???????? Iran BMW iX 10
???????? Ireland Kia EV6 123,700
???????? Isle of Man Vauxhall Vivaro 820
???????? Israel Aiways U5 58,600
???????? Italy Tesla Model 3 911,000
???????? Côte d'Ivoire Tesla Model 3 2,750
???????? Jamaica Lexus RZ 3,360
???????? Japan Lexus RZ 190,600
???????? Jordan Dongfeng EM10 46,200
???????? Kazakhstan VinFast VF 9 49,000
???????? Kenya Lexus RZ 17,700
???????? Kosovo Porsche Taycan 4,140
???????? Kuwait Lexus RZ 10,170
???????? Kyrgyzstan Lexus RZ 9,270
???????? Laos Tesla Model 3 2,110
???????? Latvia Nissan Leaf 10,960
???????? Lebanon Volkswagen ID.4 14,380
???????? Lesotho Tesla Model X 220
???????? Liberia Lexus RZ 340
???????? Libya Lexus RZ 600
???????? Liechtenstein Hyundai IONIQ 5 870
???????? Lithuania Nissan Leaf 24,000
???????? Luxembourg Kia EV6 13,620
???????? Macao Tesla Model Y 1,500
???????? Madagascar IVECO eDaily 480
???????? Malawi Beijing EU7 450
???????? Mali VinFast VF 9 1,020
???????? Malaysia BMW iX 167,300
???????? Maldives Tesla Model 3 910
???????? Malta Honda E 5,090
???????? Marshall Islands Ford F-150 Lightning 80
???????? Mauritania Lexus RZ 570
???????? Mauritius Kia EV6 25,160
???????? Mexico Tesla Model 3 375,500
???????? Moldova BMW iX 8,520
???????? Monaco Tesla Model 3 470
???????? Mongolia Lexus RZ 6,530
???????? Montenegro Rimac Nevera 3,010
???????? Morocco Tesla Model 3 15,780
???????? Mozambique Lexus RZ 900
???????? Myanmar Lexus RZ 3,860
???????? Namibia Nissan Leaf 1,100
???????? Nauru Lexus RZ 70
???????? Nepal Hyundai IONIQ 5 18,910
???????? Netherlands Kia EV6 764,000
???????? New Caledonia Kia EV6 980
???????? New Zealand Nissan Leaf 80,400
???????? Nicaragua Tesla Model S 2,010
???????? Niger VinFast VF 9 1,960
???????? Nigeria Lexus RZ 328,500
???????? North Macedonia Rimac Nevera 4,850
???????? Northern Mariana Islands Hyundai IONIQ 5 180
???????? Norway Tesla Model Y 388,600
???????? Oman Lexus RZ 7,950
???????? Pakistan Audi e-tron GT 28,100
???????? Palau Tesla Model X 120
???????? Palestine Hyundai IONIQ 5 1,390
???????? Panama Lexus RZ 5,510
???????? Papua New Guinea Lexus RZ 290
???????? Paraguay Tesla Model 3 10,050
???????? Peru Tesla Model S 26,200
???????? Philippines Tesla Model S 64,000
???????? Poland IVECO eDaily 281,100
???????? Portugal Kia EV6 199,400
???????? Puerto Rico Hyundai IONIQ 5 17,160
???????? Romania Arcfox Alpha-S 174,600
???????? Rwanda Beijing EU5 480
???????? Saint Barthelemy Hyundai IONIQ 5 50
???????? Saint Kitts and Nevis Lexus RZ 170
???????? Saint Lucia Lexus RZ 1,030
???????? Saint Martin Tesla Model Y 60
???????? Saint Pierre & Miquelon Tesla Model 3 90
???????? Samoa Tesla Model X 120
???????? San Marino Tesla Model 3 410
???????? Sao Tome & Principe Kia EV6 100
???????? Saudi Arabia Lexus RZ 35,900
???????? Serbia Rimac Nevera 27,000
???????? Senegal Arcfox Alpha-S 1,710
???????? Seychelles Hyundai IONIQ 5 490
???????? Sierra Leone Lexus RZ 920
???????? Singapore BYD e6 57,000
???????? Slovakia Kia EV6 60,400
???????? Slovenia BMW i4 15,960
???????? Solomon Islands Tesla Model 3 90
???????? Somalia Arcfox Alpha-S 490
???????? South Africa BMW iX 106,800
???????? South Korea BMW i4 99,200
???????? Spain Tesla Model 3 816,122
???????? Sri Lanka Geometry EX3 37,100
???????? North Sudan Tesla Model X 520
???????? South Sudan Arcfox Alpha-S 10
???????? Suriname Lexus RZ 2,340
???????? Sweden Kia EV6 499,000
???????? Switzerland Tesla Model 3 201,300
???????? Taiwan Chery QQ Ice Cream 208,200
???????? Tajikistan Lexus RZ 4,380
???????? Tanzania Lexus RZ 3,080
???????? Thailand Ora Good Cat 573,100
???????? Togo Lexus RZ 2,520
???????? Tonga Tesla Model S 80
???????? Trinidad & Tobago Nissan Leaf 5,010
???????? Tunisia Sono Motors Sion 7,620
???????? Turkey Porsche Taycan 434,200
???????? Turkmenistan Lexus RZ 7,360
???????? Tuvalu Tesla Model S 20
???????? U.S. Virgin Islands Lexus RZ 630
???????? Uganda Lexus RZ 3,340
???????? UAE Volkswagen ID.4 114,920
???????? UK Tesla Model 3 1,258,500
???????? Uruguay BYD e2 19,620
???????? U.S. Tesla Model 3 6,855,000
???????? Uzbekistan Tesla Model 3 26,300
???????? Vanuatu Tesla Model 3 100
???????? Venezuela Tesla Model S 10,190
???????? Vietnam Lexus RZ 204,800
???????? Wallis & Futuna Kia EV6 60
???????? Western Sahara Tesla Model S 180
???????? Yemen Lexus RZ 590
???????? Zambia VinFast VF 9 2,360
???????? Zimbabwe Beijing EU7 2,700

Aside from popular global brands, GRIDSERVE’s database also highlights regional automakers. For example, Croatian manufacturer Rimac Automobili’s Nevera was the most highly searched-for electric vehicle in multiple Balkan countries. In India, the country’s own Tata Nexon dominated search volume.

And Vietnamese brand VinFast’s electric vehicles were the top EVs of interest in neighboring Cambodia and 12 other countries across the world (though not Vietnam itself, which searched more for the Lexus RZ).

In China, where Google isn’t the most-used search engine, results favored the Tesla Model 3. But Tesla was distinctly outsold by Chinese automaker BYD in 2022.

It’s also worth noting that most of the top searches were for a sedan or crossover SUV, but not all. In the British crown dependencies Guernsey and Isle of Man, the most searched EVs were an electric minivan (Guernsey) and van (Isle of Man).

The Most Googled Electric Vehicle In the U.S.

In the U.S., the Tesla Model 3 was the most searched-for electric vehicle in 2022. Breaking down results by states highlights its massive local footprint:

The Tesla tide across the map is unsurprising, given its aggressive market entry and role in popularizing EVs in the country. But as new entries continue to chip away at the market, warnings around Tesla’s projected decline in market share have begun to spring up.

Of the nine states that searched more for other electric vehicle makers, six of them were for foreign manufacturers Hyundai and Kia and three of them preferred U.S. carmakers Rivian and Cadillac.

The Most Searched-For Electric Vehicle By Search Volume

Tesla’s popularity in countries like the U.S., Germany, and France helps gave it the most searched-for electric vehicle by sheer volume, despite Lexus winning first place in more locations.

Here are the top 10 most searched for electric vehicles by total volume in 2022:

The Model 3’s sheer popularity put it in first place. The company’s Model Y and Model S were also in the top five, where they were joined by the Korean-made Kia EV6 and Hyundai IONIQ 5.

The Lexus RZ, by contrast, ranked as the 9th-most-popular electric vehicle by search volume. It had less than half of the Model 3’s search volume and was also behind the Porsche Taycan, Tesla Model X, and Polestar 2.

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United Airlines adds new flights to faraway destinations

The airline said that it has been working hard to "find hidden gem destinations."

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Since countries started opening up after the pandemic in 2021 and 2022, airlines have been seeing demand soar not just for major global cities and popular routes but also for farther-away destinations.

Numerous reports, including a recent TripAdvisor survey of trending destinations, showed that there has been a rise in U.S. traveler interest in Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and Vietnam as well as growing tourism traction in off-the-beaten-path European countries such as Slovenia, Estonia and Montenegro.

Related: 'No more flying for you': Travel agency sounds alarm over risk of 'carbon passports'

As a result, airlines have been looking at their networks to include more faraway destinations as well as smaller cities that are growing increasingly popular with tourists and may not be served by their competitors.

The Philippines has been popular among tourists in recent years.

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United brings back more routes, says it is committed to 'finding hidden gems'

This week, United Airlines  (UAL)  announced that it will be launching a new route from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Morocco's Marrakesh. While it is only the country's fourth-largest city, Marrakesh is a particularly popular place for tourists to seek out the sights and experiences that many associate with the country — colorful souks, gardens with ornate architecture and mosques from the Moorish period.

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"We have consistently been ahead of the curve in finding hidden gem destinations for our customers to explore and remain committed to providing the most unique slate of travel options for their adventures abroad," United's SVP of Global Network Planning Patrick Quayle, said in a press statement.

The new route will launch on Oct. 24 and take place three times a week on a Boeing 767-300ER  (BA)  plane that is equipped with 46 Polaris business class and 22 Premium Plus seats. The plane choice was a way to reach a luxury customer customer looking to start their holiday in Marrakesh in the plane.

Along with the new Morocco route, United is also launching a flight between Houston (IAH) and Colombia's Medellín on Oct. 27 as well as a route between Tokyo and Cebu in the Philippines on July 31 — the latter is known as a "fifth freedom" flight in which the airline flies to the larger hub from the mainland U.S. and then goes on to smaller Asian city popular with tourists after some travelers get off (and others get on) in Tokyo.

United's network expansion includes new 'fifth freedom' flight

In the fall of 2023, United became the first U.S. airline to fly to the Philippines with a new Manila-San Francisco flight. It has expanded its service to Asia from different U.S. cities earlier last year. Cebu has been on its radar amid growing tourist interest in the region known for marine parks, rainforests and Spanish-style architecture.

With the summer coming up, United also announced that it plans to run its current flights to Hong Kong, Seoul, and Portugal's Porto more frequently at different points of the week and reach four weekly flights between Los Angeles and Shanghai by August 29.

"This is your normal, exciting network planning team back in action," Quayle told travel website The Points Guy of the airline's plans for the new routes.

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Walmart launches clever answer to Target’s new membership program

The retail superstore is adding a new feature to its Walmart+ plan — and customers will be happy.

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It's just been a few days since Target  (TGT)  launched its new Target Circle 360 paid membership plan. 

The plan offers free and fast shipping on many products to customers, initially for $49 a year and then $99 after the initial promotional signup period. It promises to be a success, since many Target customers are loyal to the brand and will go out of their way to shop at one instead of at its two larger peers, Walmart and Amazon.

Related: Walmart makes a major price cut that will delight customers

And stop us if this sounds familiar: Target will rely on its more than 2,000 stores to act as fulfillment hubs. 

This model is a proven winner; Walmart also uses its more than 4,600 stores as fulfillment and shipping locations to get orders to customers as soon as possible.

Sometimes, this means shipping goods from the nearest warehouse. But if a desired product is in-store and closer to a customer, it reduces miles on the road and delivery time. It's a kind of logistical magic that makes any efficiency lover's (or retail nerd's) heart go pitter patter. 

Walmart rolls out answer to Target's new membership tier

Walmart has certainly had more time than Target to develop and work out the kinks in Walmart+. It first launched the paid membership in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, when many shoppers sheltered at home but still required many staples they might ordinarily pick up at a Walmart, like cleaning supplies, personal-care products, pantry goods and, of course, toilet paper. 

It also undercut Amazon  (AMZN)  Prime, which costs customers $139 a year for free and fast shipping (plus several other benefits including access to its streaming service, Amazon Prime Video). 

Walmart+ costs $98 a year, which also gets you free and speedy delivery, plus access to a Paramount+ streaming subscription, fuel savings, and more. 

An employee at a Merida, Mexico, Walmart. (Photo by Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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If that's not enough to tempt you, however, Walmart+ just added a new benefit to its membership program, ostensibly to compete directly with something Target now has: ultrafast delivery. 

Target Circle 360 particularly attracts customers with free same-day delivery for select orders over $35 and as little as one-hour delivery on select items. Target executes this through its Shipt subsidiary.

We've seen this lightning-fast delivery speed only in snippets from Amazon, the king of delivery efficiency. Who better to take on Target, though, than Walmart, which is using a similar store-as-fulfillment-center model? 

"Walmart is stepping up to save our customers even more time with our latest delivery offering: Express On-Demand Early Morning Delivery," Walmart said in a statement, just a day after Target Circle 360 launched. "Starting at 6 a.m., earlier than ever before, customers can enjoy the convenience of On-Demand delivery."

Walmart  (WMT)  clearly sees consumers' desire for near-instant delivery, which obviously saves time and trips to the store. Rather than waiting a day for your order to show up, it might be on your doorstep when you wake up. 

Consumers also tend to spend more money when they shop online, and they remain stickier as paying annual members. So, to a growing number of retail giants, almost instant gratification like this seems like something worth striving for.

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President Biden Delivers The “Darkest, Most Un-American Speech Given By A President”

President Biden Delivers The "Darkest, Most Un-American Speech Given By A President"

Having successfully raged, ranted, lied, and yelled through…

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President Biden Delivers The "Darkest, Most Un-American Speech Given By A President"

Having successfully raged, ranted, lied, and yelled through the State of The Union, President Biden can go back to his crypt now.

Whatever 'they' gave Biden, every American man, woman, and the other should be allowed to take it - though it seems the cocktail brings out 'dark Brandon'?

Tl;dw: Biden's Speech tonight ...

  • Fund Ukraine.

  • Trump is threat to democracy and America itself.

  • Abortion is good.

  • American Economy is stronger than ever.

  • Inflation wasn't Biden's fault.

  • Illegals are Americans too.

  • Republicans are responsible for the border crisis.

  • Trump is bad.

  • Biden stands with trans-children.

  • J6 was the worst insurrection since the Civil War.

(h/t @TCDMS99)

Tucker Carlson's response sums it all up perfectly:

"that was possibly the darkest, most un-American speech given by an American president. It wasn't a speech, it was a rant..."

Carlson continued: "The true measure of a nation's greatness lies within its capacity to control borders, yet Bid refuses to do it."

"In a fair election, Joe Biden cannot win"

And concluded:

“There was not a meaningful word for the entire duration about the things that actually matter to people who live here.”

Victor Davis Hanson added some excellent color, but this was probably the best line on Biden:

"he doesn't care... he lives in an alternative reality."

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Watch SOTU Live here...

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Mises' Connor O'Keeffe, warns: "Be on the Lookout for These Lies in Biden's State of the Union Address." 

On Thursday evening, President Joe Biden is set to give his third State of the Union address. The political press has been buzzing with speculation over what the president will say. That speculation, however, is focused more on how Biden will perform, and which issues he will prioritize. Much of the speech is expected to be familiar.

The story Biden will tell about what he has done as president and where the country finds itself as a result will be the same dishonest story he's been telling since at least the summer.

He'll cite government statistics to say the economy is growing, unemployment is low, and inflation is down.

Something that has been frustrating Biden, his team, and his allies in the media is that the American people do not feel as economically well off as the official data says they are. Despite what the White House and establishment-friendly journalists say, the problem lies with the data, not the American people's ability to perceive their own well-being.

As I wrote back in January, the reason for the discrepancy is the lack of distinction made between private economic activity and government spending in the most frequently cited economic indicators. There is an important difference between the two:

  • Government, unlike any other entity in the economy, can simply take money and resources from others to spend on things and hire people. Whether or not the spending brings people value is irrelevant

  • It's the private sector that's responsible for producing goods and services that actually meet people's needs and wants. So, the private components of the economy have the most significant effect on people's economic well-being.

Recently, government spending and hiring has accounted for a larger than normal share of both economic activity and employment. This means the government is propping up these traditional measures, making the economy appear better than it actually is. Also, many of the jobs Biden and his allies take credit for creating will quickly go away once it becomes clear that consumers don't actually want whatever the government encouraged these companies to produce.

On top of all that, the administration is dealing with the consequences of their chosen inflation rhetoric.

Since its peak in the summer of 2022, the president's team has talked about inflation "coming back down," which can easily give the impression that it's prices that will eventually come back down.

But that's not what that phrase means. It would be more honest to say that price increases are slowing down.

Americans are finally waking up to the fact that the cost of living will not return to prepandemic levels, and they're not happy about it.

The president has made some clumsy attempts at damage control, such as a Super Bowl Sunday video attacking food companies for "shrinkflation"—selling smaller portions at the same price instead of simply raising prices.

In his speech Thursday, Biden is expected to play up his desire to crack down on the "corporate greed" he's blaming for high prices.

In the name of "bringing down costs for Americans," the administration wants to implement targeted price ceilings - something anyone who has taken even a single economics class could tell you does more harm than good. Biden would never place the blame for the dramatic price increases we've experienced during his term where it actually belongs—on all the government spending that he and President Donald Trump oversaw during the pandemic, funded by the creation of $6 trillion out of thin air - because that kind of spending is precisely what he hopes to kick back up in a second term.

If reelected, the president wants to "revive" parts of his so-called Build Back Better agenda, which he tried and failed to pass in his first year. That would bring a significant expansion of domestic spending. And Biden remains committed to the idea that Americans must be forced to continue funding the war in Ukraine. That's another topic Biden is expected to highlight in the State of the Union, likely accompanied by the lie that Ukraine spending is good for the American economy. It isn't.

It's not possible to predict all the ways President Biden will exaggerate, mislead, and outright lie in his speech on Thursday. But we can be sure of two things. The "state of the Union" is not as strong as Biden will say it is. And his policy ambitions risk making it much worse.

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The American people will be tuning in on their smartphones, laptops, and televisions on Thursday evening to see if 'sloppy joe' 81-year-old President Joe Biden can coherently put together more than two sentences (even with a teleprompter) as he gives his third State of the Union in front of a divided Congress. 

President Biden will speak on various topics to convince voters why he shouldn't be sent to a retirement home.

According to CNN sources, here are some of the topics Biden will discuss tonight:

  • Economic issues: Biden and his team have been drafting a speech heavy on economic populism, aides said, with calls for higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy – an attempt to draw a sharp contrast with Republicans and their likely presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

  • Health care expenses: Biden will also push for lowering health care costs and discuss his efforts to go after drug manufacturers to lower the cost of prescription medications — all issues his advisers believe can help buoy what have been sagging economic approval ratings.

  • Israel's war with Hamas: Also looming large over Biden's primetime address is the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which has consumed much of the president's time and attention over the past few months. The president's top national security advisers have been working around the clock to try to finalize a ceasefire-hostages release deal by Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that begins next week.

  • An argument for reelection: Aides view Thursday's speech as a critical opportunity for the president to tout his accomplishments in office and lay out his plans for another four years in the nation's top job. Even though viewership has declined over the years, the yearly speech reliably draws tens of millions of households.

Sources provided more color on Biden's SOTU address: 

The speech is expected to be heavy on economic populism. The president will talk about raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy. He'll highlight efforts to cut costs for the American people, including pushing Congress to help make prescription drugs more affordable.

Biden will talk about the need to preserve democracy and freedom, a cornerstone of his re-election bid. That includes protecting and bolstering reproductive rights, an issue Democrats believe will energize voters in November. Biden is also expected to promote his unity agenda, a key feature of each of his addresses to Congress while in office.

Biden is also expected to give remarks on border security while the invasion of illegals has become one of the most heated topics among American voters. A majority of voters are frustrated with radical progressives in the White House facilitating the illegal migrant invasion. 

It is probable that the president will attribute the failure of the Senate border bill to the Republicans, a claim many voters view as unfounded. This is because the White House has the option to issue an executive order to restore border security, yet opts not to do so

Maybe this is why? 

While Biden addresses the nation, the Biden administration will be armed with a social media team to pump propaganda to at least 100 million Americans. 

"The White House hosted about 70 creators, digital publishers, and influencers across three separate events" on Wednesday and Thursday, a White House official told CNN. 

Not a very capable social media team... 

The administration's move to ramp up social media operations comes as users on X are mostly free from government censorship with Elon Musk at the helm. This infuriates Democrats, who can no longer censor their political enemies on X. 

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers tell Axios that the president's SOTU performance will be critical as he tries to dispel voter concerns about his elderly age. The address reached as many as 27 million people in 2023. 

"We are all nervous," said one House Democrat, citing concerns about the president's "ability to speak without blowing things."

The SOTU address comes as Biden's polling data is in the dumps. 

BetOnline has created several money-making opportunities for gamblers tonight, such as betting on what word Biden mentions the most. 

As well as...

We will update you when Tucker Carlson's live feed of SOTU is published. 

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