I just woke up about 10 minutes ago, and I’m racking my brain, and I can’t think of anything, either. This piece and poll must make CNN very upset
A grim portrait of Biden’s unhappy America
President Joe Biden often says America’s best days are ahead. It just doesn’t feel that way right now.
A nation exhausted by a two-year pandemic, struggling against rising food and gas prices, driven to distraction by school closures and torn apart by a political schism that erupted into violence is far from at ease with itself.
The sense of turmoil was captured in a new CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday that showed waning faith in US elections and found that most of the nearly 60% of Americans who disapprove of how Biden is handling his presidency were unable to name one single thing they like that he has done. “He’s not Donald Trump. That’s pretty much it,” one despondent respondent said. Another answered: “I really like his new cat, Willow Biden.”
That’s why Biden was elected, he’s not Trump. Without the Chinese coronavirus raging, Trump probably would have won.
There has been some mystification in Washington as to why administration successes have not registered more. The unemployment rate is near 50-year lows following a bumper monthly jobs figure last week. America’s economy is recovering more quickly than many other developed nations’ after the pandemic. A huge vaccine rollout saved thousands of lives. A massive Covid-19 relief bill that passed early in Biden’s presidency made significant reductions in child poverty. And while an audacious multitrillion-dollar climate and social spending bill is stalled in the Senate, Biden did what all of his recent predecessors had failed to do — pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
We’re basically replacing the jobs killed by government closing businesses with the same jobs. Most developed nations are doing better that the U.S. The vaccine was thanks to Trump, with Biden saying it would not happen by November 2020. There was a big COVID bill during Trump’s presidency. Only 13 House Republicans voted for the infrastructure bill, which doesn’t actually deal with real infrastructure. You did have 20 Senators vote for it. Democrats refused to vote for infrastructure during the Trump years.
Just 41% of those asked approve of the way Biden is handling his job. His approval rating on the economy has dropped to 37% — down 8 points since early December alone. Only 45% approve of his handling of the pandemic he was elected to end. When those who disdain Biden’s overall performance were asked to name a single thing he’d done that they approved of, 56% had nothing positive to say. “I’m hard pressed to think of a single thing he has done that benefits the country,” wrote one respondent.
Just about anything he does creates misery and doesn’t help.
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