Washington correspondent
It was to be
"the summer of joy and freedom,"
as Joe Biden put it in June.
Instead, the US president faced a series of crises over the summer that left him politically weakened, less than nine months after taking office.
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The resumption of the coronavirus pandemic, driven by the Delta variant and favored by the slowdown in vaccinations, the fires, hurricanes and floods that have ravaged the United States in recent months, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the coup de the scene of a Supreme Court ruling that reignites the battle over abortion, have ruined Joe Biden's promises to
“return to normal”
.
This black series was accompanied by a fall in the polls.
Joe Biden's popularity rating fell below 50% for the first time on August 16, according to the Five Thirty Eight site.
The first summer of his presidency, however, promised to be rather favorable for
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