Their predicament leaves White House political aides and advisers looking to recovery scenarios like these: Maybe Biden’s faster-than-normal decline will give way to a faster-than-normal return. often.
John Anzalone, a Biden pollster, commented: “None of them have had a change in two years in how people live their lives. “When it finally ends, the upward trajectory can also be accelerated.”
No one can deny Biden’s rapid decline. After remaining approved at or above 50% for the first six months in power, he has suffered severe erosion over the past six months. As he completed his first year, CNN’s most recent poll of polls found that only 42% of Americans approved of his job performance, while 53% disapproved.
This year, the Republican Party’s turn to extremism creates unusual urgency for the Democrats’ efforts to maintain their slim majority rights in the House and Senate. To have a fighting chance, strategists inside and outside the White House say, Biden’s approval rate needs to be back at least 50% by campaign time.
However, the potential factors of a comeback are still plausible, if at the time remote and unlikely.
The White House and Democratic leaders still see a path toward retooling Build Back Better in a way that all 50 Democrats in the Senate can support and turn into law. If they do, the Democratic candidates next fall could tout the offering of a specific set of economic benefits.
Clinton used keynote speeches to signal a public gratification adjustment in the wake of the 1994 Democratic Party midterm disaster.
“I made my mistake and learned again the importance of humility,” he admitted in a speech at the State of the Union in 1995. In 1996, he declared, “The Age of Politics. great power is over”.
Some Clinton White House veterans want Biden to do the same, just before the midterm elections rather than after. They suggested everything from changing his rhetoric to revising his legislative program to withdrawing from Congress entirely in favor of executive action and foreign policy.
