The chamber is unusually silent and still during this section. More Republicans are paying attention and are off their phones than they have been most of the speech.

Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Summer Lee, D-Pa., are holding “lasting ceasfire now” signs but being discreet with them.

The other sides of their signs say, "Stop sending bombs.” Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., are holding signs, too.

All five members have been highly critical of Israel's policy in the region and Biden's approach to the war. Lee, Tlaib and Bush are all wearing keffiyehs tonight.

Trump's platform Truth Social is experiencing disruptions.

Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the platform was “working just fine for us.”

The former president has been responding to parts of Biden's speech on the platform tonight.

In another jab at Trump without naming him, Biden said, "I will not demonize immigrants, saying they are poison in the blood of our country."

The comment appeared to be a reference to Trump's suggestion at a campaign rally in New Hampshire in December that immigrants coming into the U.S. are "poisoning the blood of our country."

Biden's re-election campaign quickly seized on the comment at the time, likening it to Adolf Hitler’s use of the term “blood poisoning” in his manifesto “Mein Kampf” to denigrate immigration and the mixing of races.

Trump denied the connection to Hitler, saying he never read the text, and yet he doubled down days later, saying people crossing the border illegally are "destroying the blood of our country."

Biden's references to the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and his role in the march on Selma, Alabama, had Speaker Johnson and fellow Republicans standing and cheering for the first time.

As Biden began to speak about the bipartisan border security package that was negotiated in the Senate and rejected by Republicans, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., began yelling at him about the Georgia college student who was recently killed, allegedly by an undocumented migrant.

Biden responded by picking up a button portraying the woman, Laken Riley, that Greene had handed him as he entered the chamber for tonight's address.

Biden said Riley was an "innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal." He then addressed Riley's parents and said his heart goes out to them as someone who lost has children himself.

A protester in the gallery, where guests sit, was escorted out of the speech as he was yelling about the Marines. “Second Battalion U.S. Marines," the man yelled. Biden did not even acknowledge the man.

Biden drew a sharp contrast with Trump and reminded voters of Trump’s most controversial immigration policies.

“I will not demonize immigrants saying they 'poison the blood of our country,' as he said in his own words," he said. "I will not separate families. I will not ban people from America because of their faith.”

When I interview undecided voters or voters who don’t like Trump or Biden, these Trump policies often come up as the reasons voters who don’t like Trump say they’d take Biden if the election were tomorrow.

Biden was talking about "shrinkflation" — when companies shrink the size of a product but sell it for the same price — and in an unscripted aside he talked about the candy bar Snickers, saying it's the same price but you get less.

Some will dismiss the comment as too light-hearted for the State of the Union, but it's the kind of complaint that the average person understands, a perpetual goal of the president.