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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Will The Stimulus Bill Boost Democrats' Electoral Prospects?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The crew asks whether Biden's approval rating could be boosted by the American Rescue Plan and how popular he'd have to be to avoid a backlash at the midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

They want to make daylight savings time permanent and do away with standard time.

0:06.0

Frankly, I think it's kind of insane.

0:08.0

Actually, we went over this in the 1970s.

0:10.0

They actually experimented and tried this and everyone ended up hating it.

0:14.5

I feel like we should try it again.

0:16.5

Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast.

0:26.3

I'm Gaelin Drouk.

0:28.1

President Trump's approval rating was the steadiest of any president since Polster started

0:32.6

regularly tracking presidential approval in the 1940s.

0:36.4

So far, President Biden's approval has been even steadier and significantly higher.

0:41.5

So we're going to talk about why that is and also what might affect Biden's approval

0:45.7

rating.

0:46.7

In particular, is Biden likely to benefit from the American Rescue Plan which he signed

0:50.9

into law last week and is broadly popular.

0:54.2

So last week, Biden urged states to open vaccine eligibility to all adults by May 1st.

1:00.6

And some states appear to be on an even faster timeline.

1:04.1

The country is quickly approaching a period where the challenge will go from securing

1:08.3

enough vaccines to ensuring that everyone who is eligible actually gets vaccinated.

1:13.3

We'll look at the latest polling about vaccine hesitancy and access.

1:18.3

And we're going to check in on the ongoing scandal in New York where politicians in the

1:22.1

state legislature and congressional delegation have increasingly called on Governor Cuomo

1:26.6

to resign over sexual harassment allegations.

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