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Anonymous ID: 6785f0 May 2, 2022, 8:46 a.m. No.16195019   🗄️.is 🔗kun

CNN trying to save their own asses,, kek

 

The political environment is terrible for Democrats – and it may get worse

 

Joe Biden's term has become a punchline – even to the President.

Biden might have been a good sport in poking fun at himself, his dented approval ratings and his failure to fully enact his domestic agenda at the White House Correspondents' Association annual gala dinner on Saturday night.

But his jokes were rooted in the painful reality of a presidency hostage to economic and global forces beyond his control and compounded by some of the tactical errors of his White House.

 

The result is that a year after his approval rating was comfortably over 50%, the President and his party are facing the most treacherous political backdrop in years in the run-up to midterm elections in November.

 

It's possible that high gas prices, the worst inflation in 40 years, the war in Ukraine and a persistent pandemic could all ease by November. But the trajectory of those crises and the impact they exert on issues that matter to and can hurt Americans, like the price of groceries could also get worse.

 

China's major new struggle with Covid-19, for instance fueled by its low vaccination rate and its repressive lockdowns threaten to again crunch global supply chain lines that helped push inflation higher in the first place. And if the war in Ukraine, as expected, severely impacts the harvest in the breadbasket of Europe this year, Americans could see prices soar for daily staples since the invaded country is a huge source of global grain and sunflower oil.

So it's quite likely that the daunting conditions that are currently depressing Democrats' hopes could actually get worse before Election Day.

 

SAUCE: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/election-2022-biden-democrats-political-environment/index.html?