Arizona congressman to Biden: Resign during State of the Union ... and take Harris with you

Rep. Andy Biggs has long been one of the big thinkers inside the House Republicans' Freedom Caucus, an increasingly influential epicenter of the conservative movement.

But on Tuesday, the Arizona Republican was admittedly swinging for the fences with his one wish for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

"Well, what I want to hear is that he's resigning and taking Kamala Harris with him. But I don't think I'm going to hear that," Biggs said during an interview with Just the News on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

"So what I expect to hear instead is kind of what I heard, been hearing, that the economy's great, people are back at work, you know, wages are up," he added. "They're going to deny, he's not even going to mention inflation. Probably he's not going to talk about how even as wages are up, they're being subsumed by the inflation rate, which is higher than the wage rate increase.

"He's not going to talk about the impact of supply chain issues. Still a number of people who refuse to work and have simply given up and then we still have over 11 million people out of work who normally would be working and then so I think he's gonna basically deflect."

Biggs' comments were part of a well-organized Republican effort ahead of Biden's speech to provide an alternate picture of the state of the union, focusing media attention on the issues that have driven the president's approval down below 40% in many polls.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds was slated to give the official GOP response, but House Republicans set up their own media center on Monday and Tuesday to amplify their messages ahead Tuesday night's address.