Biden Is Underwater In COVID

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In the last few weeks, Biden's handling of COVID cannot be ignored. While no one person should be blamed for the tragedies in a pandemic, Biden sold himself by saying he would "shut down the virus" and recent numbers show he has done anything but that. One thing is for sure in both the handling of the pandemic and the rejection of the Build Back Better plan, Biden and his administration need to learn how to adjust their agenda to fix the current situation.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.
0:11.1	We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get right into today is Joe Biden
0:16.3	and COVID.
0:18.3	Yeah, I don't write a lot about this, don't write every day about this, but something
0:24.9	has really become pretty clear in the last few weeks about the president's handling of COVID,
0:31.3	and I think it needs to be said.
0:34.8	A day of political reckoning is coming for the president.
0:38.6	If you look at his polls over his entire presidency, his job approval, the public's approval
0:45.3	of his handling of the COVID pandemic was the tent pole holding up all of the other areas
0:53.4	of job approval.
0:54.7	For example, if you look at the public's approval of his handling of the economy,
0:59.3	he's underwater.
1:00.8	Look at his approval of his handling of foreign affairs like Afghanistan.
1:05.2	He's underwater.
1:06.4	Look at his handling of the US-Mexico border situation.
1:10.8	He is deep underwater.
1:12.5	He is Marianna's trench underwater.
1:14.7	He is very underwater.
1:16.2	But the public still approves of his handling of COVID that has always been the thing
1:22.0	that he has gotten the most approval.
1:23.8	So he comes out this week with a new set of measures to deal with the surge in COVID cases
1:32.4	with the Omicron variant.
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