We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Dishinsky, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.

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Today I'm joined once again by Christopher Bedford, senior editor of the Federalist.

Also he's with Right Forge.

Chris, thanks for stopping by.

Hi, nice to meet you.

Hi, nice to meet you.

So we want to talk right now about the Biden administration latching on, of course, for

good reasons.

We want the president to be paying close attention and to be a leader on the world stage when

it comes to the invasion of Ukraine.

But it's clearly spawning some opportunism in the Biden administration.

The president's approval rating when this conflict began was very low, historically low.

He had a stalled domestic policy agenda.

Inflation was high.

It's now going to continue to get higher gas prices are through the roof.

And the president's approval ratings have ticked upward a little bit as he would expect

during a major conflict, a literal land war in Europe.

And I think it's clear, Chris, that the Biden administration is using this and sees this

as their way to bullying Biden during this midterm year, bullying the Democratic Party

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