US news Joe Kennedy's State of the Union response: Trump ushered era of divisiveness and hatred ‘Many have spent the past year anxious, angry, afraid,’ said Kennedy, a third-term congressman from Massachusetts Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts delivered the official Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Photograph: APJoe Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy political dynasty, delivered the official Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, warning that the US president had ushered in an era of divisiveness and hatred. Kennedy spoke just after Trump pushed for unity and declared a “new American moment” in his first State of the Union speech. Just before he took the stage, Trump had recorded the third-longest State of the Union in modern US history. The full speech – Trump's State of the Union address Read moreThe staging inevitably led to chatter over Kennedy’s prospects as a contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Source: The Guardian January 31, 2018 14:37 UTC