During CNN's coverage of the State of the Union on Thursday, host Jake Tapper stated that President Joe Biden's "mind did seem fairly sharp. He ad-libbed a response to a pretty harsh moment, some heckling about the tragic murder of UGA student Laken Riley. He got her name wrong." And host Abby Phillip stated that Biden ad-libbed "without any major gaffes, and I think that was ultimately the bar that his aides wanted him to clear."