One speech can't erase the challenges Biden faces, but Tuesday's address might have been a big step toward a top priority: reassuring uneasy Democrats.
faces three big problems heading into a reelection campaign that he’s expected to announce soon. His State of the Union speech aimed to help with two — and judging from early reaction, he may have succeeded.
Winning in that environment doesn’t allow much margin for error. A president needs to hold the support of the vast majority of his own party and win over the relatively small but crucial share of voters who swing back and forth between the two sides.One big speech can’t negate all of his challenges, but it can open the way, especially among members of the president’s Democratic Party.
And the challenges Biden faces remain significant. Within his own party, voters have been tepid, at best, about the idea of a second term. In a recent poll for the Associated Press conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, just. Among independents, only 12% were in favor of Biden running. “I would argue the Biden economic plan is working,” the president said after those numbers were released., but Democrats hope to turn around that skepticism.
Biden and his aides vehemently dispute that idea, reeling off a list of achievements at every opportunity — the bipartisan infrastructure bill that will pump $1.
Biden conceded that point in a line in his speech that was not in his prepared text, saying that “so many things that we did are just now coming to fruition.
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