Trump’s speech covered; Democratic response ignored

The Wheeling Intelligencer used one of the early Associated Press articles. Dropped from the original AP story was mention of the Democratic response:

Another Democratic star, Stacey Abrams, will deliver the party’s response to Trump. Abrams narrowly lost her bid in November to become America’s first black female governor, and party leaders are aggressively recruiting her to run for U.S. Senate from Georgia.

In excerpts released ahead of Abrams’ remarks, she calls the shutdown a political stunt that “defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people, but our values.”

No fact checking included

With President Obama’s addresses, the Intelligencer did sometimes run fact checks of the speech. So far, that has not been the case with any of Trump’s speeches including his State of the Union addresses. (Just a hunch on why -- Trump usually does not usually fare well with the fact checkers.)

In case you’re interested, here are some of the major fact checks of last night’s speech:
• Associated Press
• The New York Times
• NBC News