AMAC Exclusive – By Andrew Abbott
Nothing seems to be going right for Joe Biden.
On Thursday, the beleaguered President’s approval numbers slipped to one of the lowest points in modern history – a dismal 36%. As the Fourth of July holiday weekend arrives, the Biden administration’s much-derided tweet from last year bragging that the cost of a cookout was 16 cents lower than 2020 has resurfaced, as that same cookout now costs a whopping $10 more – reflecting just how much the price of everything from ground beef to used cars has skyrocketed under Biden. Many within Biden’s own party don’t even want him to run for reelection, and Democrats appear to be on the cusp of major losses in November’s midterm elections. At this point, it’s fair to ask, what, if anything, can Biden do to salvage what’s left of his presidency?
It’s important to remember just how far Biden has fallen in such a short time. He assumed office in 2021 with an average approval rating well above 50% – a good start for any president. As the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine expanded during the early months of his tenure, his approval grew. The successful passage of the American Rescue Plan also helped sustain his early support. Even as inflation started to rise and the Delta Variant of COVID began to hobble American confidence that the end of the pandemic was near, his approval numbers remained solidly above water.
But that would all soon come to an end as an inability to halt the pandemic, growing economic challenges, a border disaster, Democratic infighting, multiple foreign policy fiascos, and social radicalism plagued his administration as the months went on.
By August of 2021 – just eight months after Biden assumed office – his approval numbers had truly crumpled, thanks in large part to the horrific collapse of Afghanistan and the death of 13 American servicemembers. But that incident seemed to awaken Americans to a broader range of Biden’s failures, as his approval on the border, economy, and COVID saw a sharp decline as well. By September 1 of last year, Biden was polling consistently underwater. Virtually no poll has had his approval above 50 percent since December, and things don’t look poised to improve anytime soon.
But it’s not just the more obvious external crises that are driving Biden’s approval through the floor. From day one, Biden has abandoned the pretext (albeit a thinly-veiled one) of moderation which characterized his campaign and embraced a far-left agenda more in line with Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Despite only controlling the Senate via a 50-50 split with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, Biden pursued an aggressively far-left legislative agenda, openly proclaiming his desire to become a “transformational” president. This was most visible in his signature $3.5 trillion spending legislation known as the “Build Back Better” Act. These radical policies alienated even moderate Democrats . When the bill failed, it left Biden politically crippled. Today, Biden’s “transformational” legislative agenda sits in ruin.
Biden has also failed to take any accountability for the numerous crises Americans face. He continually asserts that high inflation and gas prices are not his fault but the fault of “Putin’s price hike,” “meat producers,” “gas corporations,” and even “gas station owners.” The problem with foisting these blames onto others is that it makes him look powerless or, worse, indifferent to people’s struggles. Former President Bill Clinton once said to his domestic policy advisor, William Galston, “You may not be able to fix the problem right away, but you have to be caught trying.” In this regard, President Biden has yet to be caught trying.
Yet, despite how bad things look now, there are still some actions Biden could take to try to salvage his presidency no matter who controls Congress after November. In short, Biden could reverse almost every one of his executive decisions from the first half of his term, renewing oil and gas leases to increase the energy supply, restarting the Keystone Pipeline project, cutting federal spending, and ending the federal government’s embrace of progressive identity politics. None of these solutions would completely erase the failures of his first term, but would be a start toward resolving the harm his policies have caused. Just as importantly, it would show the American people that he is trying, and that he cares more about bettering their lives than adhering to an ideological agenda.
Yet thus far, Biden has shown no indication that he is even willing to accept that things are going poorly. Whether his advisors are shielding him from the negative headlines or he simply can’t fathom that his presidency has been a complete bust, the leader of the free world appears wholly out of touch with the struggles of ordinary American families. It may then be that the best way to begin healing the wounds inflicted by Joe Biden is for Republicans to win back Congress this fall, and for voters to send Biden packing in 2024.
Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.
The group behind Biden use him like an old rag to clean up dirty car oil Not defending Bunsen but this group behind him are laughing at us Just think about a . Biden is the front man takes all the blame while the group steals millions from America and stays hidden power and hidden bank accounts. These people are not stupid. VP Harris is invisible due to her warm and friendly love of our country.This group will try to steal Nov. election and may well succeed. They act as if Nov. is in the bag. One more thing. Gun rights. Think where we would be without our weapons . This group needs to be identified and brought to trial.Yes Biden is their front even his own party has stated if there is a way to screw it up Joe will find it. The Harris group waits in the wings to replace Biden mouth watering to be at the USA watering hole. Different face in WH same game same result we lose as usual. Remember Lincoln: Of the people,By the people , For the people. Simple because it was written and implemented as stated.May God Bless America I’m old now and been on my battlefield and hope to see America in safe strong hands before I leave.
Is the question a joke?
What about the 25 Amendment. No body is talking about it now, since Trump is no longer President.
At least he could walk and was aware of where he was, and when, or where, he was supposed to sit, with out name placards or written directions.
We probably should wait until after the mid-terms and swearing in in January. The reason being we might have to get a TWO FOR, because his vice president hasn’t a clue as to what has to be done, or how. She’s worse than Biden.
I think what I’m saying falls under Art II, Sect 1. 6th paragraph.Removal of both.
Biden needs to have a Physical Exam and a Cognitive Test YESTERDAY …
He is a craven, power hungry, money hungry empty, forlorn shell who will do anything his Chinese handlers want, including betray his own nation. The real life Manchurian candidate.
Did you see Biden’s speech slamming America on July 4th? What kind of president does that? His own wife had to remind him at the end to say “God Bless America” and he still wouldn’t say it. She said it. What a jerk!!!!!!! Does he really believe all of his lies that he tells America or is he really that evil??? If I didn’t like him before, I really despise him now. No respect for his own country who he is supposed to be leading. Disgusting
RED=REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT
Only if he becomes a conservative.????
biden cannt do s–t! but as long as there are all the useful(USELESS)idiots around that voted for him the first time as well as rinos(lez cheney, et al) and the cheaters that interfered with honest elections as in 2020 he, or someone else just as useless and controllable can be reelected in 2024.
There are a lot of people here in wisconsin that voted for him the first time around and dont see him as a problem.
Biden is burned toast. He is out of touch, ideology opposed to our Constitutionn, incapable of making any decision that are meaning ful to the nation, And yes, count on it he is going to be impeached and should be thrown in jail. This man is a nightmare looking for a place to land forever.
If we can make it through this president and his administration without starting WW3, I’ll be satisfied with that provided that gas doesn’t exceed $20 a gallon. And I thought Carter was bad. Biden will be remembered as replacing Murphy’s Law.
If this little twerp can save himself then we are the stupidest humans that ever walked the earth!
Biden will never correct ‘his’ behavior or presidency.
Because he’s not the president.
See barack, soros, and gates, the vile One World Communists who are actually running DC.
The democrat have thousands of journalist writing articles all over about how bad the Republicans are. They have people writing comments in every comment sight about how good democrats are and how bad Republicans are. We all know the democrats are working through every possible way to commit voter fraud.
Still bidens presidency is toast. It is for one very simple reason. The democrats screwed the economy and their world view will not let them fix it.
NO,he is toast as are his handlers,DUMB and DUMBER and who is the DUMBIST?????
You mean can obama save go brandon
Remember the traitor whom Biden was vice president to for 8 long, sickening years. The traitor who blathered “I will fundamentally change America.” Does anyone still believe this “election” wasn’t stolen?? I have no doubt the demented Biden is doing what BHO is telling him to do…BHO is bought and paid for by possibly Soros? BHO who once opined in a blathering speech that “there comes a time in your life when you’ve made enough money”…the same BHO who now “owns” 3 multi-million dollar mansions and no doubt has a very healthy income for his “fundamentals”? Biden isn’t even cognizant of where he is most of the time let alone put together enough to make decisions.
There is nothing to save. He needs to be taken out for all the destruction and lies. He has ruined everything in our country!
Biden doesn’t think he needs to change anything. Biden thinks he is doing exactly what he has bedn/is told to do. That’s Joe’s career- doing and saying as told. It is such a part of his being that he doesn’t recognize lies. He doesn’t have enough morals or integrity to be able to know when he “lies”. Biden has been an empty suit and a puppet his entire life. Look at his history. Lie after lie has done him in. He got here because the Dems needed him. They used every bit of skill they learned in vote manufacturing that they wanted to use for Hillary- to put 0bama and Biden in. Hillary is a liability. A HUGE liability. She has dirt on everyone. IMHO the Dems fear Hillary more than prison or more than losing power . Eventually you get out of prison and eventually you get back the power. Hillary? You get dead.
#1- “don’t get dead”.
#2- see #1.
Safe move- pull all stops and get Biden and some token elected. Looks good to the idiot left. Looks promisto the Far Left at first. Looks good to the Bernie Commies. Looks good to the Green Nazi’s.
Biden=winner for Democrats.
Biden= destroy America
Biden= divide America
Biden= conquer the Constitution
Biden checks off all the boxes for moving America into Amerika.
Lol…..laughable, what’s to save? joebama and the marxist democrat party are a TOTAL DUMPSTER FIRE!
How absolutely pathetic these LOSERS are. They have done nothing good for America or Citizens!
There is no way Biden can backtrack the damage he has done. IMHO, a big part of the reason Biden was anointed the Dem candidate was because he was the one they could count on to control. Besides his feebleness, I believe they have enough evidence on him to put him, his brother, and son, in prison for life, and possibly convict of treason.
It is way too late to “save” Biden’s presidency. He should never have been elected in the first place and, but for the cheating at the polls and in the count, he wouldn’t have been.
you cannot save a presidency if it is not yours, I pray time, totally whitewashes history of this person and all the ensuing administration, laws, nominations that came with him! The united states is now a post constitutional banana un-representative republic. elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
Frankly, Biden has no more chance to survive the next election than a snowball has on a hot Miami sidewalk in August. If there is any justice left in this world, the Red Wave is going to be a tsunami and the liberals will still be reeling from the impact in 2050 and beyond.
Mr. Biden: ” Reopen Keystone XL Pipeline project ” if you are serious about backing the oil producers.
Biden and the traitors that stole the election are incapable of rational thought. Myself and many others have no doubt Barack Hussein Obama is puppet #2 pulling Biden’s addlepated strings. No doubt George Soros is pulling Hussein’s strings…and on up. George Bush Sr. when elected president said in his acceptance speech; “We must usher in the new world order.” ( I watched that speech) It’s real sports fans and has been growing in the dark underbelly of this nation like a steel spider web for decades. One of our Founders, Patrick Henry made a very serious statement so long ago…one that has been coming true for years…”When a nation forgets it’s God, tyrants soon forge it’s chains.” The older folks no doubt have seen the weakening of morality, decency, truth, honesty…for decades. We The People have been so busy pursuing the American Dream we’ve allowed the easily corrupted politicians to do as they pleased. Far to few get involved with vetting candidates let alone attend state assemblies, or pathetically even bother to vote!
Our government was instituted Of the people, By the people and For the people…it ain’t no more unless a majority of citizens familiarize themselves with the full Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and our Bill of Rights (NOT suggestions)…and understand fully what must be done…
This “government” is not sacrosanct, it’s flawed and self serving, bordering dangerously on dictatorship…if you’re not getting that you’re not paying attention! The left are bleeding from the eyes to destroy our Constitution and RE: the Second Amendment know that IT must be abolished as it has in some from in virtually every nation under dictatorial rule…we are literally one heart beat away from losing our Constitutional Republic!
In stead of these mental morons shooting inocent children and teachers,why don’t they take their hate down to the boarder and get their Jollies shooting the criminals that are comming into our country.
The fact that Bidense still has a 36% approval rating demonstrates just how ignorant a significant portion of the American public truly is. Just about every one of Twilight Zone Joe’s policy decisions (if one can really dignify them as such) has been the exact opposite of what each decision should have been. President Trump had already solved many of the problems this nation had and here goes Water Carrier Joe resurrecting these problems. The results have been more extreme pain for the American people on multiple levels, and it’s only getting worse.
The Great Puppet on the American Stage (Joe) and his tunnel-visioned hordes of ideologically defective lemmings are all Charter Members of the “180º Club” (i.e., whatever position they espouse or embrace, the exact opposite is usually true or an eminently more optimal, reasonable, efficacious and productive solution). Welcome to “Malice in Wonderland!” on steroids!
The unfortunate part is that America got exactly what the majority of the misguided electorate voted for in the 2020 Presidential Election (we got the first non-president in American history). Hopefully, the 2022 mid-term elections will restore Republican majorities in both the Senate and House. I am also hoping President Trump will run again in 2024 and WIN!
Big problem is it is better to have puppet biden then prostitute harris. She is even worse if that is possible. Our country has lost its soul since January 21,2021
He ran as a unifier and moderate but the reality is so different. November can’t come soon enough and the midterm correction.
Survives????? There are too many avenues to explore!! The options behind him are not attractive. The alternatives in major positions do not yield confidence. If you need folks to lick clean the toilets at Larry’s Amoco then follow Pinocchio. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The author is right about the ways Brandon could help reverse the harm he has done.
However, he fails to recognize the mindset of the Progressives who set all this in motion:
Anything done to help the average American is derided as “MAGA era white privilege”.
It doesn’t matter that it isn’t true, nor do they acknowledge that there are many, many minority families who are solidly middle class: all that matters to them is the narrative.
Repeat a lie often enough, it will be perceived as the truth.
So, there can be no return to sanity. As AMAC has often stated, the Dems are full speed ahead with their battle cry of “Rule or Ruin”.
I do not think there is another president other than Biden that has ruined our economy and was so against Trump that he has done everything to ruin our country !!! God bless our USA we will hold on to be united again when he is out of office
Do the American People really want Biden to Salvage his so-called presidency? Personally, I feel he should be made to lie in the bed he has made for himself. He and his cronies have created this fiasco he calls “His Presidency”. Much of what has happened since his time in office started is just short of Criminal in Nature. Especially the way he has handled the crisis at the southern border and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not to mention everything he has accomplished by Executive Order (without the approval of Congress) with no other reason than to try to discredit the previous administration. Much of what has been accomplished has been a personal attack on his perceived enemies, such as Gun Rights Groups, and the Supreme Court Justices. He is like a young child, if he cannot get what he wants he tries to do whatever he can to discredit those that oppose him. What his administration has done to our Military is Criminal. I spent 20 years in Uniform for this country and am proud of my service. I have to say that what I am seeing and hearing about what is happening in our military today is downright sickening. And it all starts at the TOP, from the Commander in Chief and the Sr. Leadership. Starting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary and the Generals and Admirals in charge of each of the Branch’s. Right down to the Ground Pounders in the field and Seaman on the deck plates. There has been so much damage done since our Illustrious President took office it will take years to undo that damage. He has undermined this country’s credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world and made us look weak in the eyes of our enemies.
Do I want the President to Salvage his Presidency? NO. He should be tried for all the Damage he has done to this once great nation.
He doesn’t have a presidency. He was never elected – he stole that spot, he and his corrupt administration with the help of Soros, Obama, Zuckerberg an other dark money people.But can he steal it again? Sure, if we permit it.If we do not continually bombard our legislators with email, phone calls, and in whatever ways we can and let them know, they serve us, we are their employers, and we demand they stop election fraud NOW!
How in the hell can this idiots approval rating even be 36%? Who in the hell still approves of this idiot? Well the answer is simple. It is uniformed idiot voters. The whole Democrat party should be classified as domestic terrorists. They should be charged with treason against the American people and if convicted pay the price. At this point the only way to clean up the SWAMP is the people. Either at the ballot box or ???????. Do I hear an AMEN?
Wouldn’t he have to have been elected to save a presidency? All that he could do is to save his coup and usurpation, and he’s been working on that since day one by consolidating his goons in the unelected bureaucracy, going after Christians, creating new gun laws, censoring free speech, dividing the nation, eliminating due process, and purging our military, and government contractors via mask and vaccination mandates. Joe Biden is not in the White House to benefit America, only who he considers “Number One.”
I don’t believe he mentally comprehends what’s going on, he is just doing what he is told by someone else so I don’t expect anything positive coming out of the White House.
Either he is really is as dumb as he seems, or he has the WORST advisors in history. Either way, he is doomed
No, Biden cannot save his presidency by any action he takes as president. But he can save his presidency by via a fraudulent election in 2024
He can’t backtrack even if he still has primeval political instincts. If he did the things listed in this article he would instantly lose his lunatic base, ie the thirty-thirty six % who still support him. So we’re stuck with more of the same as well as a slew of exec orders assuming the treason party loses like so many now predict.
Short answer? No. The Biden effort is a Dead Regime Walking, like the chicken flopping about with no head.
Talibiden is the worst President in history. Has been sold out to China for Decades. And is Destroying our GREAT COUNTRY!
Joe Biden has been an utter failure his entire life! He was caught plagiarizing in college, and still plagiarizes in speeches! He graduated near the bottom of his law school class at Syracuse University, and was caught plagiarizing while there, also.I can find no record of him taking the bar exam, much less passing it. Whenever he gives a speech, if one takes the time to check out his statements, it will be found that, most of the time, he is lying. He even made a speech at Annapolis to the graduating class, and lied about being accepted at Annapolis, which, again, was a lie. He is presently up to his ears in the Biden Family Crime Cartel investigation, lying about his not ever having talked to his drug addict son, Hunter, about business dealings. There is plenty of evidence on Hunters computer hard drive that was left at a repair shop. They even had a joint checking account and paid each other’s bills! The guy is a total fraud and the Country is suffering because. of his inept “ leadership “!
Regardless of whether Biden stays in office or not, the last 18 months have shown everyone in this country and all over the world why we need a Chief Executive who is a leader, not just a politician. Joe is a convenient tool for the Communists while they proceed with their agenda of destruction of our Republic. A true leader would actually take ownership of these problems and try to ease the suffering of his people, while a politician only seeks to assign blame to someone or something else. The result is that the American people are suffering, our nation is vulnerable, and none of the Communists could care less.
The question should not be whether “Biden can save his presidency?” Properly, the consideration should be whether the administration has the common sense to formulate and implement policies which reflect the constitutional purposes of meeting the needs of the American citizenry for “common defense, general welfare and domestic tranquility.” Obviously, the liberal left is more concerned with their partisan constituencies and the political irrelevance of sexuality of which they have chosen to make a major issue. If any single factor tends to bear out the accusations of a stolen election, it is the fact that the current administration has been unrepresentative of the needs of the American people and has set an agenda that comports with internationalist priorities which are, variably, disregarded by major players on the world stage, particularly, China and Russia. The idea that we will languish in the field of energy production is dangerous to our national defense and must be addressed before any responsive or responsible military action can be undertaken, without guarantees of adequate supplies.
Politicians think too much of themselves and their personal futures and not enough about the people they are supposed to be representing.
Say what you will about Trump, his tweets or his personality, the man provided the country with the best all-round policies of any president in recent memory and deserves much credit for them! The same can not and, apparently, will not be able to be said about Biden.
Begin by siccing collection agencies on ever member of Congress or the Senate who has a record of bad debt showing them as distrustful and publish results for the public to access. Crooks will fall like a string of dominoes. Then hunt for current candidates for office. That would be a start. That and all members of Congress who have unpaid taxes, court records of any violations that common tax-paying members of voting public don’t share. Use these same standards for privileges of any person attempting to vote in US elections. Build in high tech lie detectors in every seat of Congress and the Senate, and the Members of the Cabinet, plus lobbyists. Top it off with the most harassing collection agencies and let them go to work.
is this some sort of joke? 0’bidbama is destroying the republic! what part of what is going on escapes your woke infested mind? Everything that jack@$$ is doing – is to crush the Constitutuional Republic! WORSE POS PRESIDENT EVER NECK AND NECK WITH 0’BAMA!
I noticed that none of the helpful hints as to what Bidet could do to improve was for him to close the border. The human trafficking, drugs, illegals and terrorists that are coming into America at an unbelievable rate are creating a disaster that will take many years to resolve. The Dimocrats used to sing about “Common Sense” things that need to be done – they have now shown that they have no sense about anything are are listening to the far-left for guidance.
Who cares? Just get rid of the brain-dead old bum. None of the globalists care about anything except their agenda of establishing a one-world government. They do not care one bit about human life or America.
The Bidens and their administration can not come to an end fast enough! As an American citizen, from my perspective, if Joe changed direction now in relation to the big, major issues plaguing our country now, all would be “too little, too late”! I see the Biden family functioning very much like the mafia families! I question what contributions to the educational system Jill Biden has made, past, and continues to make as related to our “new educational” system being played out!! I’d be interested in having her role in all of this checked out as well as her role as related to the “family business”. How much influence does she have now, particularly as the Presidential 1st lady?