DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Facing a still-new Democratic-run House, President Donald Trump will try to use next week’s State of the Union address to call for unity and bipartisan cooperation, officials said Friday, even on hot-button issues like border security…In an email to supporters asking for ideas on the speech, however, the Trump campaign took out after the top congressional Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y…The annual address to a joint session of Congress comes less than two weeks after a partial government shutdown that lasted a record 35 days, the result of an angry battle over funding for Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border – a budget battle still ongoing.”
–David Jackson and John Fritze, “Donald Trump to call for ‘unity’ in State of the Union address to Democratic House,” USA Today, February 1, 2019 5:22 pm