His popularity margin was 42.8%, according to Five Thirty Eight.

Biden is trying to politically benefit from his massive law on infrastructure

  • BIDEN: It's a matter of weeks before the effects of the big investment plan begin to appear.

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  • A train station in California is in need of renovation along with many other stations.

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US President Joe Biden took to the street yesterday to explain his huge infrastructure reform law, which was narrowly voted on a few days ago, hoping to reap its political fruits at a time when his popularity level is declining.

The US president chose Baltimore, a coastal city less than an hour's drive from Washington, to explain how the US will spend $1,200 billion on infrastructure.

Last Monday night, in an interview with local television in Cincinnati (Ohio, Northeast), the Democratic president asserted that it was "a matter of weeks" before the effects of this major investment plan, which was narrowly passed last Friday in the House of Representatives, begin to appear.

Yesterday, he spoke of "two or three months", before the workshops begin on the Internet, but also roads and bridges, the laying of fresh water pipes, and the establishment of stations for electric cars.

The bet for the Democratic president is that this massive program begins to produce results, at least politically, before the legislative elections in the middle of the state, within a year.

These elections are complex for the standing authority, and could cost the Democrats their slim majority in Parliament.

Meanwhile, all of Biden's cabinet ministers are on the front line, and the president is trying to mobilize local elected officials from his party to promote these massive expenditures that are popular in principle but whose details remain unknown to the public, especially after weeks of complex parliamentary negotiations.

another battle

There is another battle looming in “Congress” on the other hand, over the second part of the economic and social reforms that Joe Biden wants, and perhaps more difficult to explain: $1750 billion allocated to reduce the cost of childcare, pre-school education, and health for the middle class.

tell a story

After Baltimore, the president will continue to "do more" on the ground, White House aide Karen Jean-Pierre emphasized Tuesday.

It is certain that Joe Biden keeps in mind the experience of Barack Obama, especially since he was his vice president.

Obama launched a recovery plan in 2009 worth about $800 billion, with mixed results economically and politically disastrous, and the Republican opposition at the time recorded strong progress in the next midterm elections.

Barack Obama later considered that his mistake was that he missed that, in addition to decisions, the president should "tell Americans a story that gives them a sense of loneliness, of purpose and optimism."

This is what Joe Biden intends to do, surrounded in the White House by former senior officials from the Obama administration.

The US President expressed his conviction, Saturday, that "in 50 years, people will look back and say: This is the moment when America decided to win the competition of the 21st century" in the face of China and climate change.

But for now, it's another matter. Americans are particularly concerned about rising fuel prices, about supply problems, and about the pandemic that has yet to be overtaken.

Last Tuesday, Joe Biden's popularity margin reached 42.8%, according to the "Five Thirty Eight" website, which collects the results of various opinion polls.

At the same point in their terms, only two presidents in recent US history scored worse, according to the same source: Gerald Ford (38.4%) in November 1974, and Donald Trump (37.9%) in November 2017.

• The bet for the Democratic president is that this massive program begins to produce results, at least politically, before the legislative elections in the middle of the term, within a year.


• All Biden's ministers appear in the forefront, and the president is trying to mobilize local elected officials from his party to promote these massive expenditures, which have popular support in principle, but whose details remain unknown to the general public, especially after weeks of complex parliamentary negotiations.

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