
American media will turn its spotlight from Ukraine to Biden for a few hours on Tuesday
CNN
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American news outlets will briefly pull away from around-the-clock coverage of Ukraine when President Biden delivers his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that Americans care more about close-to-home pocketbook issues than foreign wars. But the current state of play seems to be more complicated. CNN released new polling on Monday showing that "broad majorities of the public say they are paying attention to the situation in Ukraine (79% following at least somewhat closely) and that they are worried about the conflict leading to broader war in Europe (80% very or somewhat worried), leading to Russian attacks elsewhere (77%) or threatening U.S. national security (72%)."

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