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Biden tries to revive himself during a marathon press conference

2022-01-20T01:55:04.419Z


The American president answered questions for two hours about his blocked reforms, the pandemic, inflation, and his confidence rating...


Boasting his economic and health record, going more into contact with Americans: Joe Biden explained on Wednesday January 19, during a marathon press conference, how he hopes to relaunch his presidency before perilous legislative elections in the fall.

Joe Biden, who does not like press conferences and who rarely gives them, answered questions for nearly two hours about his stalled reforms, the new wave of the pandemic, inflation records, and his anemic confidence rating … In response, the 79-year-old Democrat, whose strong point is not, tried to oppose a sometimes bravado tone.

"A year of challenges but also enormous progress"

"Can you name another president who has accomplished as much as I have in a year?"

, he launched.

"To hear you, it sounds like nothing happened."

Since his inauguration on January 20, 2021, he said, the United States has had

“a year of challenges but also a year of enormous progress.”

He pointed out that 75% of American adults were now fully immunized, up from 1% when his administration took over.

The president also boasted of

"record job creation"

,

"record growth"

.

More meetings with Americans in the future

And faced with the

"fatigue"

and

"frustration"

of his compatriots, the Democrat, who in his long political career has always relied on his pleasant personality, has promised to go further to meet them.

“I don't have the opportunity to look people in the eye (…) to go out and do the things that I have always known how to do rather well: get in touch with people.

Let them gauge my sincerity.

Let them gauge who I am

,” lamented Joe Biden.

Reforms stalled but not abandoned

The president wants to save

"large sections"

of a huge social reform of 1.750 billion dollars, which he failed to pass in Congress, because of dissidents in the Democratic ranks. And he assured that he had not

"exhausted all options"

on another emblematic promise: to protect access to the vote for African-Americans, who are mainly Democratic voters.

There too, a draft federal legislation that was shipwrecked before parliamentarians.

Joe Biden the optimist has actually conceded, so to speak, only one mistake.

This cantor of dialogue between parties and a great supporter of consensus, who was a senator for thirty years and vice-president for eight, assures us that he had

“not anticipated”

such a degree of opposition from the conservatives to his projects.

Inflation will last

However good-natured he may be, Joe Biden will have a lot to do to rally an American population that is mainly concerned about the cost of living, and the new wave of the pandemic.

Fighting inflation will require

"a long-term effort"

, he conceded.

“By then, it will be painful for many people”

.

A country still divided

Inheriting a country bruised by the Covid-19 pandemic, shaken by a historic protest movement against racism, and where divisions have been white-hot by Donald Trump, Joe Biden considered that the country was still

“far from 'be as unified as it should be'.

A

ticket” with Kamala Harris in 2024

A new Gallup poll puts his popularity rating at just 40%, down from 57% when he took office.

This is enough to worry the Democrats, who fear a debacle in the mid-term legislative elections, scheduled for the fall.

The president, however, projected himself into the 2024 election, indicating that he would again choose his current vice-president, Kamala Harris, to be his running mate.

Source: lefigaro

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