Irish Examiner view: Focus will not be on the rivals

US president Joe Biden will deliver his address tonight. Picture: AP

US president Joe Biden faces opportunity and peril in equal measure when he delivers the annual State of the Union address to the Houses of Congress tonight.

Unlike many of his predecessors — especially the one immediately before him — Biden will not use the platform of the annual speech to blow-torch rivals and perceived enemies and trumpet their own (very modest) economic successes.