Politico and the Washington Post address President Biden’s problems with Americans (Polling Numbers) with Midterm Elections coming in November….
House Democratic campaign chairman Sean Maloney (N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who traveled to the White House on Feb. 2, decided that the best route was to take the issue directly to the president. They made the request as part of a broader discussion about how Biden would help in the coming elections and the ways the White House can more succinctly sell its agenda and accomplishments….
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“I don’t see a message. That troubles me. I think Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” said Democrat Gilda Cobb-Hunter, the longest-serving member of the South Carolina State House. “They’ve done some good things. They don’t seem to be able to figure out how to talk about it.”…
Biden has not seen his party blown out in the midterm elections — not yet anyway — but many of his own supporters take it as almost a given that this is coming. And, on the eve of another State of the Union, restoring his credibility as a president and a man is once again the most urgent order of business. It is an assignment that comes as his approval ratings are low, his legislative agenda is stalled and the world is facing what promises to be a costly long-term confrontation with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.
Here is one place Biden and his anxious party might start: By remembering that the modern presidency offers its occupants nearly inexhaustible capacity for political revival. While Biden faces a growing roster of doubts and doubters — including within his own party — his two immediate Democratic predecessors offer vivid examples showing that the tools for him to reverse perceptions and regain control of his presidency are within his grasp.
Biden’s, Obama’s, and Clinton’s troubles in the opening phase of their presidencies are all different in detail. But they share a common dynamic — progressives with an ambitious agenda who faced a uniformly hostile and remorseless partisan opposition, and were widely perceived in the opening phase of their tenures as being in over their heads.
In Biden’s case, specifically, he has three principal problems….
Note….
As I have been pointing out here?
Progressives ARE and have always been part of the problems for modern day Democratic President’s political fortunes with voters across the board….
And?
Joe Biden is almost invisible in the media….
He does NOT sell his acomplishments like the Infrastructure Bill and the apparent virus situation getting better…
An effort to claw back some more positive for Biden….
It’s Biden’s Time
Playbook: “Biden is an Atlanticist who likes to brag about how he stayed in touch with European leaders while out of office from 2017 to 2021. He is a creature of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Munich Security Conference. He came up in politics immersed in the debates of the Cold War, which are now newly relevant. When he said recently that ‘the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power,’ he could have been lifting the line from one of his 1988 presidential campaign speeches.”
“Biden, in this view, is uniquely suited for the new role that has been thrust upon him.”
“It was Biden and his team’s patience and close consultation with European allies that has led to the extraordinary unity now on display. Biden’s patience waiting to impose sanctions until after the invasion, even in the face of intense criticism, has been vindicated because Putin would have pointed to preemptive sanctions as a provocation and a reason to invade. Biden said that Germany would abandon the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Putin attacked and he was right, because he had been engaged in quiet diplomacy on the issue all along.”
Former Sec of State Condi Rice on FOX News said Biden has united NATO in a way she didn’t think possible post Cold War.
Mark another Republican who won’t be allowed on FOX again.
Truth hurts….