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President Joe Biden was met with protesters slamming 'open borders' and holding 'Let's Go Brandon' signs as he arrived in Culpeper, Virginia Thursday to talk about reducing the price of prescription drugs.

Biden voyaged an hour and a half outside of Washington, D.C., to give a boost to endangered Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, despite his own sluggish polling.

A new CNN survey out Thursday conducted in January and February found that 58 per cent disapproved of the job Biden is doing, with 56 per cent of that group having nothing positive to say about the Democratic leader.

That sentiment was spelled out in the mixed bag of messages that greeted the president once he arrived.

'Get your grubby hands off my healthcare,' one sign read.

'Build Crack Better,' said another.

A bearded man held up a sign that said, 'We won't forget what you stole: Jobs, Freedoms, History, Elections, Our Future.'

A child held up a sign that said 'don't sniff me,' while a woman beside her held a sign that read, 'Biden sucks.'

Upon arrival at Germanna Community College, the White House program started with quick remarks from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who Biden heavily complimented once he took the mic, after The Washington Post reported that White House staff wanted Becerra gone.

'I also want to thank Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra for two things: one, for answering my call when I asked him to come and be the secretary. I was worried he wouldn't,' Biden said laughing.

'And how much he's helped us make so much progress in getting people vaccinated, getting health insurance and making more affordable healthcare,' the president said.

Biden also marveled at the speaking skills of 12-year-old Joshua Davis, a Type 1 diabetic who would benefit from a provision in the president's Build Back Better package to cap insulin prices.

'Thank you Mr. President,' Biden told the boy. 'I could have no more have done that when I was 12-years-old than fly,' the president added, mentioning how he had been a stutterer, doing an impression of how he used to speak.

Davis had talked about needing between 10 and 12 shots of insulin a day.

'I have to be careful with my bottles of insulin because they can break very easily. And well, I am a 12-year-old boy,' Davis said to laughs from the crowd.

Biden remained hopeful that he could get the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better package passed, despite Sen. Joe Manchin, a member of the president's own party, recently calling the bill 'dead.'

'And we're close,' Biden told the Virginia crowd.

The president gave Spanberger credit for helping get Build Back Better passed in the House. That vote came back in November, with the package hitting a Manchin-sized roadblock in the Senate several weeks later.

Biden credited Spanberger's 'enthusiasm' for helping the package get passed.

'So I may be dragging you over the Senate to spend some time,' Biden told the Virginia lawmaker.

More broadly, Biden pushed that some of the provisions contained in Build Back Better bill are low-hanging fruit for Congressional Democrats who are expected to have a rough time in the midterms.

'Bringing down the cost of prescription drugs is an easy thing for us to do, that can be done legally with a stroke of a pen,' the president argued.