Biden Says He'll Do 'Nothing' Differently, Confident Policies Working
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday projected confidence in the country's direction after the midterm elections, responding "nothing" when asked what he will do differently in the next two years.
"The more they know about what we're doing, the more support there is," Biden said of voters during a nearly hour-long news conference after midterm election results exceeded expectations for Democrats.
With many race results still pending, Republicans are likely to capture control of the House and the Senate is still in play for both parties. But Democrats dodged a so-called "red wave" as midterm elections have historically punished the president's party two years after his first election.
"It was a good day, I think, for democracy," Biden said, later adding: "I know you were somewhat miffed by my obsessive optimism, but I felt good during the whole process."
Biden acknowledged voters' concerns about public safety and inflation, saying "there's still a lot of people hurting." But he said the "overwhelming majority" of Americans support his economic agenda.
"I'm confident these policies are working and that we're on the right path and we need to stick with them," he said, pledging to work with Republicans.
Biden's comments about the next two years came in response to a question from the Associated Press' Zeke Miller, who noted that 75% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction despite the election results.
Biden said people don't want his administration to walk away from the work they have done to lower the cost of prescription drug prices or pass bipartisan legislation to improve the nation's infrastructure. Some measures take time to implement he said, but "there's a lot of things that are just starting to kick in."
"So I'm not gonna change," he said.
But the president noted that he wants to build on some of his achievements, such the gun safety legislation he signed in June.
"We didn't ban assault weapons," he said. "I'm going to ban assault weapons. I'm going to try like the devil."
Biden acknowledged that "some good Democrats" lost their elections, but he said his party had a "strong night."
"We lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president's first midterm election in the last 40 years," he said. "And we had the best midterm for governors since 1986."
Former President Barack Obama called it a "shellacking" when Democrats lost 63 House seats and six Senate seats in 2010. In 2018, former President Donald Trump lost 40 Republican seats in the House and two in the Senate.
Former President George W. Bush picked up eight House and two Senate seats in 2002 after the September 11, 2001 attacks, but he admitted Republican took a "thumping" in 2006 when losses in both chambers totaled 36.
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Brandon is a human fuck up machine today, tomorrow, and forever.
More of the same that got us into this mess to begin with. Brilliant!
Ha! Those Babylon people are wild.
How arrogant and out of touch do you have to be when 75% of the voters feel the country is headed in the wrong direction and you refuse to change what you are doing...
Apparently, Joe and his handlers weren't told that even back in April and June 2022, reliable media polls (Gallup, ABC,IPSOS) showed that approximately 75% of Americans disapproved of the direction he was taking our country.
Gallup Poll - April 1, 2022
ABC/Ipsos - June 5, 2022
Does it never occur to you that a hell of a lot of Americans blame the gop, MAGA and Trump for taking America and the world bassackwards...
Opinions do vary. China flexing their muscle, North Korea shooting missiles, Russia in Ukraine, Iran sabre rattling.
Yeah that fucking Trump........./S
Interesting twist, JBB. How is it possible to "blame the gop, MAGA and Trump for taking America and the world bassackwards..." when they didn't control the Executive and Legislative branches in 2021 and 2022?
Didn't you get the memo? It's always in vogue to blame the prior administration.
TDS seems to be an incurable disease.
Do you believe that many liberals have ever thought things have been "going in the right direction" since about 1980?
Or even that many conservatives either?
We were number one in wealth, health, education, living standards, but no more!
The US has been going down since LBJ.
With Covid, high unemployment, a tanked stock market plus rampant Trump nuts trying to overthrow our government things already sucked two years ago...
You didn't answer my 5.2.3 question. Why?
The threats to democracy posed by the MAGA are getting worse. Which is why, millions more Democrats voted Tuesday!
The gop offered us no plan to help at all.
The Biden administration already cut the deficit by a trillion dollars and tightened credit to curb inflation. The fix is in so by two years from now things will improve...
Will that make you sad if things improve?
Republicans won the "popular vote."
Please stop spreading misinformation.
Once again, Biden is already doing what needs to be done by cutting spending and raising interest rates, and so there really is nothing he should do differently. If you check the headline that is the very topic.
Oh, i get it. You think the topic is blaming everything on Biden and telling whoppers.
Lol.
Bullshit. Clintonesque accounting................................
You can drop what you added the previous year due to circumstances and proclaim victory even though it's an apples to lug nuts comparison. SMH God the twists some people go to without critical thinking and analysis.
“TDS seems to be an incurable disease.”
Invoking ‘tds’ is an insufferable deflection.
"Economics is just math" - Bill Clinton
You all blather on about this but none have given any specific threats. Care to make an attempt?
You're going to have to back that one up.
I know it. He knows it. I'll bet he won't even attempt to respond.
Look it up. Biden has cut our deficit by a trillion dollars and raised interest rates. Economies don't turn on a dime. The current problems were baked into the books by Covid and Ukraine and Trump's irresponsible tax cut and Covid spending. Things are already improving, jus slowly...
Within two years markets will soar, rates will stabilize and inflation will be tamed.
In time for Biden to win four more years.
Lol.
So it looks like Texan and I are right. You CAN'T back up the claim. And for the record, no matter how many times you repeat that fiction, it's still going to be fiction.
Are you unaware Biden's Fed has raised interest rates each of the last few months?
I began thread 5's discussion in an on-topic manner and never mentioned Trump. If you follow the thread, JBB was the first to mention former president Trump in comment 5.2 . Hence, my comment 5.2.6 about TDS. I'm still waiting for JBB to answer my question, but he seems to be avoiding me.
Do consider finding someone else's ankles to chew, because mine aren't available.
Yea, a 81-85 year old President.
Who has shown cognitive and physical disabilities since at least age 75.
Which is strange. They spent months avoiding talking about what they were doing. The entire campaign was "vote for us or democracy is over"
Is that what you heard inside the rightwing bubble? You were grievously misinformed.
Perhaps you should get new news sources...
I know. The ridiculousness never ceases.
You Tube doesn't have a single left wing media video about Biden's quid pro quo.
"The more they know about what we're doing, the more support there is,"
That's like saying, "If I give each of them $10,000, they'll vote for me."
The reality is that even though 2/3rds of the country think we're "headed in the wrong direction", the election results reveal that this doesn't mean 75% necessarily want to go in the Republican direction either.
I believe the majority of Americans want a government that can function for everyone and isn't mired in a partisan battle of attrition. The problem is this has always been the core struggle between the two parties, one wanting to build a government that addresses its citizens needs and is actually helpful vs a party that wants to shrink the government to the size that they could drown it in a bathtub.