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With growing urgency, the president seeks to make the electorate perceive that he has accomplished a lot, even if they don’t yet see it in their lives.
By Nicolas Nehamas
Report from Washington
President Biden is finding that passing one of the most ambitious legislative packages in recent U. S. history is the easy part. Persuading Americans that he deserves a second term may prove much more difficult.
Faced with low approval ratings and a tight race against former President Donald J. Trump, Biden must now report to the electorate on his accomplishments, big and small.
Road signs promoting his law are posted on structural projects funded through his $1 trillion infrastructure bill and on factories where jobs are created through his CHIPS science act and $280 in billing. Biden has called for emails informing indebted Americans that their loans are being forgiven and travels to battleground states to defeat the electorate that has benefited from his policies.
The Democrats are the historical best friend, “the party of the abstract, and we want to be the party that humanizes things,” said Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, a best friend of Biden’s who believes the president has the ability to do just that. Dude, he’s so smart at it that he puts his arm (figuratively and literally, best friend) around the other Americans and says, ‘Hey, listen, I feel your pain. ‘
But Biden faces many demanding situations to reap the credits he believes he deserves as he seeks re-election to the White House.
Polls show that a majority of Americans disapprove of their functionality at work. Many Americans say they have benefited more from Mr. Biden’s most troubling thing, he remains underwhelming among key elements of the Democratic coalition, adding Black and Hispanic Americans and young people. Electorate: To the other people, many of his efforts were aimed at helping.
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