I’ve said this over and OVER here ….
President Biden HAS done a LOT of damn Good things in his 3 1/2 years in office…
But Biden has thought that was enough….
It has NOT been…..
He has got money for infrastructure….
He has forgiven TONS of student loan debt….
He has presided over a increase in US employment….
He has supported Union/Labor…
He has dealt with post pandemic America….
Has has guided America back to good name and reputation world wide (Before the Israeli/Hamas conflict)…
But the BIGGEST thing he has done?
Is calm the worries of American’s and others around the planet that the person in charge of America is calm and NOT worrisome …
The problem for Joseph R. Biden IS that he simply has NOT broadcasted his actions to Americans….
Doing what he has done has been what President’s should do in office…
But?
NOT showcasing your stuff is NOT enough…
He KNOWS THAT now and IS trying to correct the problem of people NOT seeing him as a ‘STRONG’ President….
President Biden is discovering that passing one of the most ambitious legislative agendas in recent American history may have been the easy part. Persuading Americans that he deserves a second term may be far more difficult.
Confronting low approval ratings and a neck-and-neck race against former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Biden is now racing to tell voters about his accomplishments, in ways big and small.
Road signs that promote his legislation are going up at construction projects financed by his $1 trillion infrastructure billand at factories where jobs are being created by his $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. Mr. Biden has affixed his name to emails telling Americans with student debt that their loans were being forgiven. And he is traveling to battleground states to sit down with voters who have benefited from his policies.
Democrats traditionally have been “the party of the abstract, and we need to be the party that humanizes things,” said Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, a Biden ally who believes the president has the skill set to do just that. “He personally is so good at this, putting his arm — figuratively and literally — around the American people and saying, ‘Hey, listen, I feel your pain.’”
But Mr. Biden faces a host of challenges in reaping the credit that he feels he deserves as he seeks re-election to the White House.
Polling shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of his job performance. Many Americans say they benefited more from the policies of Mr. Trump. Most concerning for Mr. Biden, his support remains underwhelming among key parts of the Democratic coalition, including Black and Hispanic Americans and younger voters — the people many of his efforts were designed to help.
Some of that negativity can be attributed to the 81-year-old president’s age, the lingering effects of the pandemic and improved views of Mr. Trump, a phenomenon that is common after presidents leave office. The war in Gaza has depressed enthusiasm among Democrats, too.
Mr. Biden, however, may also be hampered by the very nature of his major legislation, which is meant to achieve transformational and long-term goals like rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, combating climate change and reinvigorating manufacturing. Problems of that magnitude cannot be solved instantly — or even before voters go to the polls in November. Without immediate results, ambitious legislation can be harder to market….
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“Biden is a different generation in that respect. For him, policy is about legacy, as opposed to ‘What will it do for me tomorrow?’” Ms. Kamarck said. “Now, it certainly does pose political issues because people don’t see the results. But I think most people understand that climate change, you don’t solve it overnight.”…
image…President Biden during a visit to the John A. Blatnik Bridge in Superior, Wis., in January. Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda has directed billions of dollars to construction projects, but his approval ratings have not climbed as a result. Credit…Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times