Republicans struggle to counter attacks President Biden
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Biden is an evasive code for Republicans to deliver a successful message in nearly 100 days in his government, with a relatively low profile and refusing to participate in the daily oral mockery that Washington has consumed over the past year.
This presents a challenge that, according to GOP senators, is that they are not hitting the mark.
“We better get to it. “I do not think our messages are sometimes as sharp as they should be, because many of the things they do are things that are popular – if you spend money, you are popular, ‘Sen said. John Thune
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Asked how his party is doing, Sen. Mike Braun
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“I don’t think we did a very good job because he gets away with defining himself and rolling out this stuff that we borrow every penny for it, and the public buys 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.”
For decades, Biden has built his reputation as a loving trader who has come through the party’s central wing. During the 2020 campaign, he discussed his relationship with the Republicans and hoped that after former President Trump
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The dual rhetoric continued in the White House, with the government being issued by IDP legislators through private calls and public meetings of the Oval Office.
Republicans view the rhetoric as out of touch with the way it governs, pointing to invitations to the White House that do not lead to real policy changes that move toward the IDP.
“He was already outside with a dialogue of unity and duality and almost drew a masterpiece because there was nothing of it. And that we have to explain it. I think the invitations to the White House were on one of them. … What did we end up with? Zero, ”Braun said.
Republicans are betting that voters will eventually turn against Biden’s billion-dollar spending.
“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 trustworthy and pleasant,” Thune said .
But, he added, “if he goes further left, the very left lane in terms of policy will eventually catch up with him.”
It may not expand for Republicans so far, however, but Biden has recently, as well as this week, won praise for style and content from the right.
Republicans were quick to support new sanctions announced by the government against Russia. And his speech during the memorial service for a Capitol police officer who died this month earned him praise from Fox News, where host Harris Faulkner calls him “iconic” for delivering “kindness and empathy.”
GOP senators have acknowledged that, apart from politics, they largely like Biden, and many people have known him for years or not for decades.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell
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“I like him personally, I mean, we’ve been friends for a long time,” McConnell said.
GOP senators say Biden’s reputation and a moderate tone of ‘nice guy’ helped isolate him politically.
‘I think he’s currently in a small honeymoon period because he looks like a nice guy. But people just think because you’re a nice guy, you’re a moderate person, and he does not rule like a moderate, ‘Sen said. John Cornyn
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“It’s always harder to fight a gifted person because usually people give him the benefit of the doubt,” he added.
According to the averages compiled by the tracking website FiveThirtyEight, Biden’s approval rating in the low to mid 50s has been largely stable since it began in late January. That’s higher than what Trump got during his four years in the White House.
A poll by the Pew Research Center released Thursday raised Biden’s approval rating to 59 percent, up from 54 percent in their March survey. Forty-six percent of Americans also said they like how Biden ‘behaves like president’, compared to 27 percent who do not. Forty-four percent say he has improved the political debate.
Republicans do think their Biden on the border was successful.
The rise of unaccompanied migrant children along the U.S.-Mexico border only emerged last month as a political hotspot. Democrats acknowledged this was an area of concern and Sen. Joe Manchin
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Voices support the GOP’s perception that the border is a weak spot for Biden. A Quinnipiac University poll found that only 29 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the border situation and 55 percent do not.
Forty-eight percent also told Pew that they consider illegal immigration to be a “very big problem,” which is 20 points higher than a year ago.
“I think he defined himself. “I think all we have to do is indicate what he is doing, the disaster at the border,” said Sen. Ron Johnson
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Johnson also blamed the media for not focusing on the border anymore, adding that “once you have the mainstream media in your back pocket, you will remain popular.”
But when senators returned to the Capitol this week, the IDP leadership focused their weekly press conference largely on infrastructure and spending, with only Thune mentioning the border. A second press conference Thursday was similar.
Some Republicans leaned into the cultural wars, which play well with the GOP base, and Biden’s mental fitness was a constant whirlwind of speculation for the right.
But Cornyn suffered a setback this week for a tweet in which he quoted a Politico article outlining Biden’s less-is-more media strategy. He follows this up with another tweet asking who is “really in control”, and causes criticism to provoke that he raises the questions. The GOP senator described the experience as a carpet bomb, but stood by his tweet.
“I think that’s a good question. When the ten Republicans went to talk about the COVID-19 bill, they apparently had a very good meeting with the president and Ron Klain
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But Senate Republicans have largely stayed away from personal attacks on Biden, arguing that the policy is the best way to win him over politically in the long run.
“I do not lead such a conversation. “I am more worried about nuts and bolts that they do on policy,” Braun said.
The poll shows that Biden’s ideas are popular with a majority of Americans. Pew found that 67 percent of Americans approve of the $ 1.9 billion coronavirus package. Fifty-seven percent of Americans support its infrastructure plan, according to a Morning Consult-Politico poll.
Braun attributed Biden to the choice of issues that are widely popular, even if the Democrats extend the legislation to go much further.
‘I think he has defined himself and that it resonates with the public that he wants duality and unity and that they have chosen topics – who is against COVID enlightenment? But then it’s only ten percent. Who is against infrastructure? And it is only six percent, it is roads and bridges, “said Braun.