Republicans are fighting to attack the ground President Biden
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Biden is proving to be a scapegoat because Republicans successfully send messages against nearly 100 days to his administration, keeping a relatively low profile and refusing to participate in the daily verbal struggle that has consumed Washington in recent years.
It presents a challenge that, Republican senators acknowledge, they are not marking.
“It simply came to our notice then. I don’t think sometimes our messaging is as clear as it should be because a lot of the things they’re doing are things that are popular: when you spend money, you’re popular, ”says the senator. John Thune
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Asked how his party was doing, Senator. Mike Braun
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“I don’t think we’ve done a very good job because it’s escaping defining and deploying these things that we’re lending every penny and the public buys them,” Braun said. “We have to find ways to articulate and fight in a better way, and I don’t know if we’ve found it.”
Biden has spent decades building his reputation as an affable merchant who came through the centrist wing of the party. During the 2020 campaign, he talked about his relationship with Republicans and hoped that after the first one President Trump
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Bipartisan rhetoric has continued in the White House, with the administration addressing GOP lawmakers through private phone calls and publicly revealing Oval Office meetings.
Republicans feel the rhetoric is out of touch with the way it governs, and point to invitations to the White House that do not lead to real policy changes that move toward the Republican Party.
“He came out with a dialogue of unity and bipartisanship and almost pulled out a masterpiece in which there was none of that. And that we need to clarify. I think the invitations to the White House, I participated in one of these. … What did we end up with? Zero, “Braun said.
Republicans are betting that voters will stand up against Biden’s trillion-dollar spending.
“His tone is moderate and he’s a kind person, he’s a nice person and a lot of us know him, we have relationships with him and it’s probably harder to attack someone who is nice and likeable,” Thune said.
But, he added, “if he keeps going down the left, the far-left lane, when it comes to politics, this will finally start to catch up with him.”
Still, that’s not thinking about Republicans, as recently this week Biden won praise for both the style and substance of the right.
Republicans were quick to support the new sanctions the administration announced against Russia. And his speech at a memorial to a Capitol police officer who died this month earned him praise from Fox News, where host Harris Faulkner called him “iconic” for offering “kindness and empathy.”
Republican senators have acknowledged that, aside from politics, they like Biden greatly, and many have known him for years, if not decades.
Leader of the Republican Senate Party Mitch McConnell
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“I personally like, I mean, that we’ve been friends for a long time,” McConnell said.
Republican senators say Biden’s reputation and moderate tone of “good boy” have helped him isolate himself politically.
“I think he’s in a honeymoon period right now because he looks like a nice guy, which he is. But people think only because you are a nice guy, you are a kind of moderate person and you don’t rule like a moderate, ”said the senator. John Cornyn
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“It’s always harder to fight a nice person because normally people will give you the advantage of the doubt,” he added.
Biden’s approval ratings have remained largely stable in the mid-1950s since taking office in late January, according to averages compiled by monitoring website FiveThirtyEight. This is higher than what Trump achieved during his four years in the White House.
A Pew Research Center poll released Thursday put Biden’s approval rating at 59%, up from 54% in the March poll. 46% of Americans also said they liked how Biden “behaves like president,” compared to 27% who didn’t. Forty-four percent say the political debate has improved.
Republicans believe they have been successful in hitting Biden at the border.
The rise of unaccompanied migrant children along the U.S.-Mexico border emerged as a political hotbed last month. Democrats acknowledged it was an area of concern and the senator. Joe Manchin
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Polls support the Republican Party’s perception that the border is a weak point for Biden. A University of Quinnipiac poll found that only 29 percent of Americans approve of how Biden handles the situation at the border and 55 percent disapprove of it.
Forty-eight percent also told Pew that he considers illegal immigration a “very big problem,” a 20-point increase from a year ago.
“I think he has defined himself. … I think all we have to do is point out what he’s doing, the disaster on the border, ”the senator said. Ron Johnson
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Johnson also blamed the media for not focusing more on the border, adding that “when you have the conventional media in your back pocket, you’ll stay popular.”
But when senators returned to the Capitol this week, Republican Party leadership largely focused its weekly press conference on infrastructure and spending, with only Thune mentioning the border. A second press conference on Thursday was similar.
Some Republicans have leaned into cultural wars, playing well with the Republican Party base, and Biden’s mental form has been a constant whirlwind of speculation for the right.
But Cornyn got a fierce reaction this week from a tweet where he quoted a Politico article detailing Biden’s strategy, which is less media-savvy. He followed this up with another tweet asking who “really commands”, provoking criticism that raised these questions. The Republican Party senator described the experience as a “pumped carpet,” but stayed by the side of his tweet.
“I think that’s a good question. When the 10 Republicans went to talk about the COVID-19 relief bill, it looks like they were having a very nice meeting with the president and Ron Klain
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But Senate Republicans have largely stayed out of personal attacks on Biden, arguing that the best way to win politically against him in the long run is politics.
“It simply came to our notice then. I’m more concerned about the nuts and bolts in what they do when it comes to politics, “said Braun.
Polls show that Biden’s ideas are popular with most Americans. Pew found that 67 percent of Americans approve of the $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus package. Fifty-seven percent of Americans support their infrastructure plan, according to a Morning Consult-Politico poll.
Braun credited Biden with very popular issues on the surface, even if Democrats extend current legislation to go much further.
“I think it has defined itself and resonates with the public that is after bipartisanship and unity and that they have chosen issues: who is against the relief of COVID? But then it is only 10%. Who “It’s against infrastructure? And it’s only six percent, which are roads and bridges,” said Braun.