BTRTN: Bad News Comes in Threes, For Both Biden and Trump
Born To Run The Numbers sees a glimmer of hope for the midterms, even after Biden absorbs a crushing series of body blows in January. And as bad as January was for Biden, it was every bit as tough for Trump. Read BTRTN's January in Review:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2022/02/btrtn-bad-news-comes-in-threes-for-both.html
Excerpts: "If the Democrats are to have any chance at all of maintaining control of the Senate and House in the midterms – or even of achieving a respectable loss in either or both – then the month of January better have been rock bottom for Joe Biden. Biden sustained perhaps the worst single week of his presidency, with a trio of terrible headlines that related to the economy (ever rising inflation), Congress (a flat out loss on voting rights) and COVID (a flat out loss in the Supreme Court). And yet, even amidst the carnage, which drove his approval rating to a new low, there were some clear wins at the end of the month. In fact, if Biden’s 'reset,' whether he calls it that or not, is successful, one may point to late January as an inflection point for his administration..."
"The first good news was the announcement by Justice Stephen Breyer that he would retire at the end of his term (or when his replacement was announced, if later)... Next came the welcome economic news that GDP had grown by 6.9% in the fourth quarter... the largest increase in 37 years. And finally, days later, and just as the month ended, came the data that indicated that COVID cases in the US were finally on the decline..."
"Biden has one other thing going for him – the travails of Donald Trump, and the Republican Party that is hopelessly lashed to him. In the spirit of everything coming in three’s this month, Trump suffered three blows himself that put him in increasing legal peril...
"The question for Biden is, of course, can he build on his modest late month turn of fortune..."
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