It keeps playing in the media on and ON…..
Driving down Biden’s poll umbers and making next years Midterm elections forecasts worst for Democrats….
And?
Democrats trying to tell the media how to cover things probably isn’t help things as the voters keep reading about the price tag and taxes for the ‘Go Big’ Biden/Democratic legislation and budget push…
Oh and?
The internal push/pull AMONG Democratic lawmakers’ factions in Congress , in PUBLIC, ain’t helping them either….
This while we see prices climbing at the gas pump and supermarkets….
Punchbowl News: “Now onto the next deadline. In 18 days, federal highway spending authority expires. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer want to get a reconciliation package and infrastructure bill to Biden’s desk before November hits.”
“But let’s just be abundantly clear Democrats are nowhere right now. They do have a window to strike a deal over the next few weeks, but can they make it happen? That’s the huge question hanging over Washington right now.”
“Negotiations between the White House, Pelosi and Schumer haven’t resulted in a ‘topline’ spending number yet, and it’s not clear when that will happen. No one in the House or Senate leadership could give us any timetable on Tuesday other than to say they were ‘working on it.’ Without that compromise, the rest of the multi-trillion dollar reconciliation package can’t be finished. And House Democrats can’t pass the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill already approved by the Senate, a critical issue for Biden that Democrats outside the Beltway are begging for right now.”
From The Hill….
Democrats are struggling to break through on their sweeping social spending bill amid a laser-like focus on the price tag and high-profile squabbles.
Democratic leadership has set an end-of-the-month deadline to get both the spending package and a Senate-passed infrastructure bill to President Biden, as they try to turn the page on weeks of infighting that has spotlighted internal divisions and thrown the party’s legislative agenda into limbo.
The effort to show momentum comes as congressional Democrats and Biden have seen their poll numbers slip as they creep deeper into the year. And while the ideas behind the spending bill are popular with voters, a CBS News poll released this week found that only 10 percent of Americans knew a lot about the specifics and 57 percent indicated they didn’t know any details about the multitrillion-dollar proposal….
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Democrats argue part of their problem is an intense media focus on the price tag for the reconciliation bill, rather than the potential benefits for residents.
The CBS News poll found that the potential cost of the bill topped a list of what Americans had heard about the legislation. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they had heard about $3.5 trillion in spending, in line with the 58 percent who said they had heard about tax increases for high-income earners. Those two figures are significantly above the 40 percent who said they had heard about lowering drug prices under Medicare or expanding Medicare to cover hearing, vision and dental — two big priorities for Democrats…
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A growing number of voters think congressional Democrats are underperforming expectations. Twenty-four percent of Democrats said in June that Democratic lawmakers had accomplished less than expected, compared to 37 percent who said the same in October, according to a Morning Consult-Politico poll.
Democrats aren’t just struggling to drive home the details of their plan to voters; they’ve also been unable to secure breakthroughs with each other that would put Biden’s bill on a glide path….
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Congressional Democrats previously cleared a budget resolution that allows them to pass a spending bill of up to $3.5 trillion without needing to break a 60-vote legislative filibuster in the Senate, meaning they can bypass Republicans.
But since then, Democrats have been locked in constant, headline-grabbing rounds of infighting, including the White House vs. Congress, the House vs. Senate, moderates vs. leadership and moderates vs. progressives….
The view from the Republican Right….
So what does Joe Biden have to say about all this?
“I’ve never been more optimistic about this country than I am right now. We are going to pass both the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and the Build Back Better Agenda — and start building this economy to beat the competition and deliver for working families.”
So tweeted the president on Monday as he returned from Delaware to a Democratic Congress in turmoil and a White House facing the reality that the Build Back Better bill at this moment has about as much chance of passage as Chuck Schumer winning the Senate’s Miss Congeniality award.
Biden’s problem seems to be his determination to create a transformational legacy for himself and his administration at any cost — and by enthusiastically embracing progressivism over moderation to do so….
More…
Daniel Grimes
@dnlgrimes
Just wrapped interview with
@LarrySabato
who says early turnout among Democrats for the state election is drastically down. The biggest factor? The inaction of Democrats in Washington. He says if something isn’t passed to energize Dems, then
@GlennYoungkin
could win in November.
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Daniel Grimes
@dnlgrimes
One of
@TerryMcAuliffe
’s strategies is tying Youngkin to former President Trump. But Sabato says that’s less effective now with Trump out and Democrats in power in Washington. Though he does say Trump is still an energizing factor given how unpopular he is with Democrats.
This isn’t true because they have nothing, no previous turnout figures, to compare it with and early voting is highest in blue counties.
This is California recall all over again.
Hey Keith?
….The problem for Biden is that the exit poll indicates clear leakage in his support from a year ago. In the 2020 general election exit poll, his favorable rating stood at 64% to an unfavorable rating of 34%.
Put another way, his [Biden] net favorability (favorable minus unfavorable) rating of +30 points a year ago became a +19-point net approval rating this year. Similarly, the exit poll itself showed that recall voters said they voted for Biden by a 26-point margin last year, which is 7 points higher than his net approval rating…
More…
(Despite your unflinching rah, rahting?…Joe Biden and Democrats ARE on the downslide ACROSS the country , California Democrats included…The numbers ARE telling…That does NOT mean he can’t recover)
Well here’s something interesting…This poll is an outlier
OR?
Every other poll in the last few weeks are?
Ryan Struyk
@ryanstruyk
President Biden’s approval rating clocks in at 50% approve, 49% disapprove via new
@CNN
poll just out.
Good feeling for Biden & Co., which will be checking to see if this IS a outlier ….
RCP…..
President Biden Job Approval Politico/Morning Consult Approve 46, Disapprove 51 Disapprove +5
President Biden Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 43, Disapprove 56 Disapprove +13
President Biden Job Approval Economist/YouGov Approve 42, Disapprove 51 Disapprove +9
President Biden Job Approval CNN Approve 50, Disapprove 50 Tie
Update….
That CNN poll with Biden at 50/50 Approve/disapprove is bracketed by 2 more polls that are just NOT where CNN is…..(Granted one of the polls is a Rasmussen Poll)
President Biden Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 43, Disapprove 56 Disapprove +13
President Biden Job Approval Reuters/Ipsos Approve 46, Disapprove 48 Disapprove +2
RCP…
The two leading Democratic moderates made clear to their colleagues this week that a deal on the party’s sweeping economic package is far from secured, raising new questions about the fate of President Joe Biden’s first-term agenda, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Among the red flags: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona told lawmakers on a call that she would be hesitant to endorse a final deal on the social safety net plan until the House first passes the Senate’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Sinema indicated there had been a “breach in trust” following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to punt a vote on the infrastructure bill earlier this month after she had assured moderates her chamber would hold a final vote on the measure, one of the sources said.
But Pelosi and Biden were forced to reverse course and shelve the infrastructure plan after progressives refused to provide the necessary votes as they demanded Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin join with the rest of the Senate Democratic Caucus to push through the party’s larger social safety net and climate package first.
Yet Sinema and Manchin both made clear this week that they had disagreements with their party on some of the central components of the larger package, the clearest sign yet that Democratic leaders’ goal of passing both bills by their self-imposed October 31 deadline seems doubtful at best.
On a call with a small group of fellow Democrats this week, neither Sinema nor Manchin endorsed the $1.9 trillion-$2.2 trillion price tag that Biden has privately floated as a new topline number, saying they have yet to see details from the White House on such a proposal — even as progressives have said that figure is far too small to include their main priorities from the original $3.5 trillion plan. The initial 10-year proposal — which would touch nearly every aspect of American life from health care to the climate and raise taxes on corporations and high earners to pay for it — needs the support of all 50 Senate Democrats to pass, and Manchin and Sinema remain the most prominent skeptics.
Sinema said both she and Manchin told Biden they “cannot guarantee” they would get behind even $2.1 trillion, as she reiterated that the infrastructure bill should pass first to make progress on the larger plan, one of the sources said…
The two senators said they believed that their party should drop some programs offered in the larger package to cut its cost, breaking with progressives who want to maintain an array of programs but limit the number of years in which people would receive benefits. The senators indicated they should focus on a handful of new programs instead.
In particular, Manchin raised concerns over the proposed expansion of Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing coverage — something that Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, has contended is a red line for him and other progressives.
Manchin made clear he opposed new paid family and medical leave provisions that Democrats are trying to get into the bill while renewing his deep concerns over including a plan to provide tuition-free community college. As he’s done publicly, the West Virginia Democrat also called for new benefits to be means-tested — to limit the eligibility to those with lower incomes — an idea that has been resisted by many Democrats.
And perhaps what could emerge as the biggest sticking point: Manchin roundly rejected calls by Democrats to include aggressive climate measures — namely to substantially slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. He said the goal laid out by the White House to cut greenhouse emissions by half in that timeframe simply would not happen….
—“Manchin and Sinema detail key disagreements over Biden agenda”
By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent
Updated 7:47 AM ET, Fri October 15, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/manchin-sinema-disagreements-biden-agenda/index.html
Thank you DSD for the overview of the situation among ONLY DEMOCRATS …….
As has been pointed out here…..
The final deal will be a compromise MORE to the two Senator’s liking……
Not Progressives….
The post i did yesterday on the Gallup poll results shows that an important block Democrats in swing districts need, Indies…..Have switched to back the two Senator’s view of less ….All the media focus on $3.5 TRILLION has had a negative NOT a positive effect Biden might have wanted…..
Moderate and Centrist Democrats have also begun to be worried about their midterm chances….
Biden , think , has gone with the progressives to try to wiggle more money out of the two Dem Senators and he’s got some…..
But as i pointed out here
Biden, Pelosi and Schumer ARE running out of time and poll numbers….