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The Biden Problem

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden broke through the Democratic primaries as the safe choice, the one to beat Trump and get stuff done by reaching across the aisle. But two years into his presidency, his approval rating has plunged, his own party has stymied most of his agenda, and the most effective political body in Washington is the conservative-majority Supreme Court. What’s Biden’s plan here?


Guest: Perry Bacon Jr., columnist for the Washington Post.


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0:00.0

Here's the moment when I thought, whoa, Joe Biden is not doing so great right now.

0:12.7

Today's many things.

0:13.7

As proof of despite the nasares, we can make meaningful progress on dealing with gun violence.

0:20.3

This is last week at the White House.

0:22.7

The president's giving a speech celebrating the gun control legislation he just passed.

0:27.1

Sit down, you'll hear what I have to say.

0:29.0

And in the middle of it, someone in the audience gets up and begins heckling.

0:46.1

This is the dad of a parkland shooting victim, and he is pissed.

0:49.8

He wants Biden to open up a gun control office inside the White House.

0:54.7

And the thing that I found surprising about all this is that this was an invitation only

0:59.6

event.

1:00.6

Everyone there had been screened.

1:02.7

So for Joe Biden, it was a little like a horror movie.

1:06.2

The call was coming from inside the house.

1:11.9

The Washington Post's Perry Bacon, he's noticed a vibe shift too.

1:16.9

He clocks it a little differently.

1:18.8

Says frustration really started bubbling over after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

1:23.8

Wade.

1:24.8

These two plus weeks since the Roe ruling, I'm just hearing a lot of people publicly

1:32.4

behind the scene saying there just is not a lot of fight.

1:37.0

There's not enough strength.

1:38.4

The Republicans are running circles around us.

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