- As President Biden approaches his 100th day in office, he has positive rating benefits from voters.
- Republicans are struggling to counter Biden’s strong policy agenda.
- Biden’s pressure to raise corporate taxes to fund its infrastructure bill arouses voter support.
- See more stories on Insider’s business page.
President Joe Biden has confused Republicans in Washington, DC.
He successfully passed his $ 1.9 billion COVID-19 bill, despite the objections of every Congressional Republican, arguing that the popular legislation had great support among IDP voters.
As someone who has loved himself at Amtrak, Biden has long been a proponent of strengthening the country’s infrastructure, leading to a proposed $ 2 trillion legislation that would invest in everything from roads and bridges to broadband and public school upgrades.
Similar to the lighting bill passed in March, Republicans argue that the infrastructure bill is too expensive.
Biden, who is aware of the mistakes made by the government of former president. Barack Obama has been ousted from his former seat as vice president is relentless in his view that now is the time for courageous change in America.
Republicans attacked the worldview, arguing that united Democratic control over government led to too much liberalism, with Biden’s government as a liability.
Nearly 100 days into Biden’s first term, however, most voters seem to hold the opposite view, and the IDP was almost powerless to stop him.
Biden gets good marks from the American public
Over the past few days, several major national polls have shown Biden with positive approval ratings.
The latest poll from the Pew Research Center showed that Biden approved 59% of the work – 39% of respondents did not approve of its performance.
The latest poll by Morning Consult / Politico approved Biden with a position of 60%, while only 37% considered his performance unfavorable.
Quinnipiac released a poll on Wednesday in which Biden was also shown in a positive area with an approval rating of 48%, while 42% declined.
Read more: Imagine a car with 20 cars taking you to dinner. This is the White House bubble in which Joe Biden now finds himself.
The proposed infrastructure bill actually conducts polls better among respondents in the Quinnipiac poll when asked if they would support increasing corporate support
taxation
to fund the legislation, a position that most IDP members of Congress strongly oppose.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill greet supporters as they prepare to board an Amtrak train to begin a train tour of Cleveland, Ohio, on September 30, 2020.
REUTERS / Mike Segar / File Photo / File
It is difficult to run against a popular president and has just led a major stimulus in the economy to help the country recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their plight.
Biden’s years of moderate sensitivity give him credibility
Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota acknowledged the party’s struggle to counter Biden’s messages.
“We better get to it,” he told The Hill. “I do not think our messages are sometimes as sharp as they should be, because a lot of things they do are things that are popular. When you spend money, you are popular.”
Indiana Senator Mike Braun told The Hill that the GOP is doing ‘badly’ in countering Biden’s agenda.
“I do not think we have done a very good job, because he is defining himself and rolling out this stuff that we borrow every penny for it and the public is buying it,” Braun said. “We need to find ways to articulate and fight in a better way, and I do not know that we have found it.”
Biden, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009 before serving as vice president from 2009 to 2017, has long had a reputation for being a moderate old-school Democrat.
As president, he managed to deftly formulate policy in a way that drew support from moderates and progressives along with many independent voters.
Progressive people, who mostly stood behind independent Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential elections, have so far overwhelmingly joined Biden’s policy agenda, helping to give the president almost unanimous support among Democratic voters in the latest vote numbers.
However, Republicans in Congress are beginning to complain that Biden’s dual outreach did not provide much input.
Republicans believe Biden achieves too much policy
“He was out with a dialogue of unity and duality and almost drew a masterpiece because there was none of it,” Braun told The Hill. And that we have to explain it. I think the invitations to the White House … I was on one of the … What did we end up with? Zero.’
IDP members predicted that voters would eventually lose appetite for Biden’s larger spending proposals.
Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota speaks at a GOP news conference with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Kevin Dietsch / Pool / AFP
“His tone is moderate and he is a sweet person, he is a pleasant individual and many of us know him, have relationships with him and it is probably harder to attack someone who is friendly and attractive,” Thune told The Hill said, adding that “if he goes down left, the very left lane, in terms of policy, that it will eventually catch up with him.”
Mitch McConnell, minority leader of the Kentucky Senate, who has served with Biden in the Senate for more than 20 years, recently said that Biden presides over a ‘left-wing government’ while praising himself as a ‘first-rate person’.
“I personally like him, I mean, we’ve been friends for a long time,” McConnell said.
Biden’s focus on vaccinations and ‘talking straight’ when it comes to COVID-19 earned him a high mark in handling the case.
Over the past few weeks, Republicans have been trying to shift the focus of Biden’s presidency to the border between America and Mexico, which has seen an increase in unaccompanied migrant children hoping to cross the border.
Although Biden’s approval of immigration issues is his weak spot in the vote, it does not have a significant effect on his overall position, much to the dismay of some Republicans.
GOP Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin filed such a complaint, accusing the press of making Biden possible.
“I think he defined himself … I think all we have to do is point out what he’s doing, the disaster at the border,” he told The Hill. “If you have the mainstream media in your back pocket, you will remain popular.”