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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 01:57 PM Mar 2021

Most Think Biden Reached Out to Republicans

Source: PoliticalWire/Pew Research


March 10, 2021 at 12:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

A new Pew Research poll finds that 57% of Americans believe President Joe Biden engaged in good faith efforts to win Republican support for his pandemic relief bill, while 55% believe that Republicans did not engage in good faith efforts to work with him.








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Most Think Biden Reached Out to Republicans (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2021 OP
Giving Joe the benefit of the doubt. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2021 #1
He reached out to republican voters. That counts. SharonClark Mar 2021 #2
Biden has done a masterful job on many levels. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #3
And it's only 50 days in. Politicub Mar 2021 #5
I know, amazing. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #6
He did. And in a very public way. Politicub Mar 2021 #4
Bad news for the GQP lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #7
Good. Hard to style it as weakness when he wins. :) Hortensis Mar 2021 #8
He was a Senator for 36 years before becoming VP BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #9
POTUS Made Several Good Faith Efforts To Get GQP Input COL Mustard Mar 2021 #10
Americans are more politically savvy than they are generally Deminpenn Mar 2021 #11

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,785 posts)
1. Giving Joe the benefit of the doubt.
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 02:00 PM
Mar 2021

Good. It shows Joe is following through on what he campaigned on.

Being a President for ALL of the people, Republicans as well.

Politicub

(12,165 posts)
4. He did. And in a very public way.
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 02:34 PM
Mar 2021

He promised to reach out. He can’t control how they react. People know this, and are rewarding him for it.

The Manchin drama probably helped to punctuate Biden reaching out.

BumRushDaShow

(128,937 posts)
9. He was a Senator for 36 years before becoming VP
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 07:21 PM
Mar 2021

so he knows all the old heads in there. I'm sure he talked to them but also saw and dealt with how they had acted with Obama over 8 years too.

COL Mustard

(5,897 posts)
10. POTUS Made Several Good Faith Efforts To Get GQP Input
Wed Mar 10, 2021, 08:25 PM
Mar 2021

In the end, they were left at the station as the Biden Train left on Track #46. Sucks to be them; maybe they'll get another opportunity somewhere down the road.

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