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This was a judgment, fairly or not, on the Biden administration...We know what polling was on Election Day, and JB had a 40 percent approval rating. I don't think there's been a president who won reelection with an approval rating that low."
Veteran Democratic Strategist David Axelrod on CNN January 8 For some presidents—particularly Nixon, Reagan and Obama—how Americans think they will be viewed historically is more aligned with their last job approval rating than with their average term rating. This suggests that the initially poor retrospective evaluation of Biden's presidency may improve and exceed those of some other presidents in the future."
Gallup's Jeffrey Jones in a poll write-up I hope that history says that I came in and I had a plan how to restore the economy and reestablish America's leadership in the world. That was my hope. I mean, you know, who knows? And I hope it records that I did it with honesty and integrity, that I said what was on my mind."
President Joe Biden in a January 5 interview with USA Today Biden so wanted the approbation that I think he felt like to be a great president, you had to be a two-term president, or at least elected to two terms, and that was a terrible, terrible mistake. He will pay a price for that which will be beyond anything that he would have imagined. I hope that the clouds will recede in that he, like others, will be treated better by history than he is by voters right now."
Former Obama strategist David Axelrod speaking during an episode of Hacks on Tap podcast Because there are so many other things I want to do in terms of the Biden Institute Penn on foreign policy [and] the Biden Institute in Delaware on domestic policy to keep the things going that we started, and I think we can get it done,
I’ve talked to former presidents – apparently building the library is a gigantic undertaking,
Although I’m leaving, you’re stuck with me, I’m not going away,
Biden told The View in September Now we can sleep safely and comfortably; that’s it, nothing more,
Ironically, I almost spent too much time on the policy and not enough time on the politics,
I don’t feel like I deserve anything more than any of my neighbors,
The real problem goes back to the money,
We should have a process that honors our traditions, our coalitions that ensures we battle test our candidates,
We need a DNC chair for this wartime footing,
Our problem is we trusted you all,
I don’t rub elbows with billionaires or Hollywood elites,
he said, another contrast with Wikler, who is close to Reid Hoffman, the wealthy venture capitalist, and who has appeared with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” We have so many … spokespeople out there that we should be tapping into,
New Hampshire is going to go first because their state law says it’s going to go first, and they’re just going to do that no matter what we say,
That sounds corny. But I mean, I really, really am concerned, because you’ve heard me say it 100 times, I really think we’re in an inflection point in history here ... [when] things are going to change drastically [that] occurs every five or six generations. And it usually is generated by technology,
You have some senators in Congress, Democratic senators in Congress saying, ‘Well, you know, Joe Biden did this, and this is done by so and so and so and so, and this is the new, you know, built by the Democratic Party kind of thing, letting peopl know what was responsible for this happening,
The mistake we made was, I think I made, was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this,
