Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
Editorials & Other Articles
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
Biden notches political, policy and diplomacy wins to cap year
President Biden has been doing an amazing job
Link to tweet
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/president-biden-notches-political-policy-diplomacy-wins-cap-year-rcna60747?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_lw
Call it a December surprise: Joe Biden is on a roll.
Approaching the midpoint of his presidency, Biden is racking up an unexpected string of victories at a point when most sitting presidents are long past their honeymoon phase and are confronting a voter backlash......
The latest came Thursday morning, when Biden delivered the stunning news that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner swap.
Biden had been hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more apt to free Griner once America’s midterm elections were done, a calculation that proved correct. Just two days after the final contest of the 2022 midterm campaign season, a smiling Biden announced to reporters that Griner was out of prison and on her way home as part of an exchange that involved the release of the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout......
Most presidents who’ve reached this point in the term are sorting through the wreckage of a humbling set of midterm elections. Since Franklin Roosevelt first took office in 1933, presidents have lost an average of 28 House and four Senate seats in the midterms. Biden’s party sealed a one-seat Senate majority thanks to Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff victory Tuesday over Republican challenger Herschel Walker. While Democrats lost the House, they staved off the widespread defeats that past presidents endured. (A “shellacking” is how then-President Barack Obama described his party’s 63-seat loss in the House in 2010.)
Within hours of Griner’s release, the House fulfilled a Biden legislative goal, passing a bill that protects marriage for same-sex couples. In a 2012 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was vice president, Biden came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and he is expected to sign the measure into law.....
“When I look at what the Biden White House has done, I think experience and patience really paid off,” said Jennifer Palmieri, who served as White House communications director during the Obama administration. “They did everything they could to put Democrats in the strongest possible position in the midterms. And it broke their way.”
Approaching the midpoint of his presidency, Biden is racking up an unexpected string of victories at a point when most sitting presidents are long past their honeymoon phase and are confronting a voter backlash......
The latest came Thursday morning, when Biden delivered the stunning news that WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian penal colony in a high-profile prisoner swap.
Biden had been hopeful that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be more apt to free Griner once America’s midterm elections were done, a calculation that proved correct. Just two days after the final contest of the 2022 midterm campaign season, a smiling Biden announced to reporters that Griner was out of prison and on her way home as part of an exchange that involved the release of the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout......
Most presidents who’ve reached this point in the term are sorting through the wreckage of a humbling set of midterm elections. Since Franklin Roosevelt first took office in 1933, presidents have lost an average of 28 House and four Senate seats in the midterms. Biden’s party sealed a one-seat Senate majority thanks to Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff victory Tuesday over Republican challenger Herschel Walker. While Democrats lost the House, they staved off the widespread defeats that past presidents endured. (A “shellacking” is how then-President Barack Obama described his party’s 63-seat loss in the House in 2010.)
Within hours of Griner’s release, the House fulfilled a Biden legislative goal, passing a bill that protects marriage for same-sex couples. In a 2012 interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was vice president, Biden came out in favor of same-sex marriage, and he is expected to sign the measure into law.....
“When I look at what the Biden White House has done, I think experience and patience really paid off,” said Jennifer Palmieri, who served as White House communications director during the Obama administration. “They did everything they could to put Democrats in the strongest possible position in the midterms. And it broke their way.”
3 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
