Gallup: Biden Ratings on Economy, Foreign Affairs, Russia Near 40%
* 41% of Americans approve of job Biden is doing overall
* Issue approval ratings mostly steady
* 36% approve of his handling situation with Russia
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-one percent of U.S. adults approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as president, similar to his 40% rating for handling foreign affairs, while approval of his handling the economy and the situation with Russia are slightly lower. Americans give Biden better marks for his response to the coronavirus, but still fewer than half approve.
These ratings from a Feb. 1-17 Gallup poll are little changed from the prior readings, including a January measure of his overall job performance and November ratings for the economy, foreign affairs and the coronavirus response. Gallup last measured Biden's performance on Russia in August.
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WNU Editor: Rasmussen has President Biden's daily approval number at 46% (link here).
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IMO in the short term the histrionic screeching of the Biden administration about Ukraine are working for him.
The Biden maladroit administration has admitted in February after lying for 2 months that inflation was not transitory and yet his number improved over the last 2 weeks by 3 points each with approval and disapproval in the RCP average.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
I think it means that if you can lie, but yet put out a positive message about something, it works. If you have a willing press corps.
The positive message is that the Biden maladministration is implementing unprecedented sanctions. Sanctions which WNU predicted will be gone in a year. My prediction was 2 or 3 years. Whichever one is true how serious is Biden and the man behind the curtain (Obama) are about Russian aggression?
PS: It is all shits and giggles for Obama, because he has plausible deniability. He will claim he was innocently sitting at one of two beach front house sipping daiquiris watching the rising oceans inundate his multimillion dollar investments.
Quite right. Putin wanted to undermine the NATO alliance, and Trump undermined the NATO alliance. Putin wanted to weaken the E.U., and Trump made little effort to express his disdain for the E.U. Putin wanted to weaken the U.S. political system, and Trump was unnervingly aggressive in trying to weaken the U.S. political system.
Putin wanted to hurt Ukraine, and Trump launched an extortion scheme that threatened to hurt Ukraine.
Why didn’t the Russian leader deploy troops into Ukraine during Trump’s term? Perhaps because Putin was so pleased with an American president who pursued goals in line with Moscow’s agenda.
Had Putin launched an invasion, it risked upsetting the course he was already delighted to see.
In the words of Thomas Carlyle, 'There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics.'
"Perhaps because Putin was so pleased with an American president who pursued goals in line with Moscow’s agenda" - Russian Troll or Democrat liar fuckface.
pursued goals?
That is rather vague. It is vague on purpose.
Let me discuss Trump's goals. One was for NATO nations to spend more on their militaries. Let us look at the effect of that goal if it is reached. Larger or more capable NATO militaries are a deterrent to Russia or going on the road to getting there.
how Donald Trump actually acted toward Putin while he was in office. Who can forget Trump’s kowtow to Putin at Helsinki in 2018? The U.S. president rejected the findings of the United States’ own intelligence community about the hacking of the 2016 election and said: “President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” Or who can forget Trump’s use of U.S. military aid to extort the government of Ukraine into helping him politically? Or all of Trump’s anti-NATO animus? Trump mused about pulling out of the alliance, questioned its Article 5 security guarantees and ordered a withdrawal of 12,000 troops from Germany.
It is true that the Trump administration sometimes pursued tough-on-Russia policies independent of the president, but this was largely the work of officials who were purged long before the end of Trump’s term. By the end of his presidency, Trump was surrounded by people such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has recently called Putin “a very talented statesman,” “very shrewd,” “very capable,” and said, “I have enormous respect for him.”
At least Pompeo is willing to admit that Putin is the “aggressor” and the Ukrainians are his “victims.” No such censure was evident in Trump’s comments Tuesday to right-wing podcaster Buck Sexton. Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is an act of “genius,” according to Trump. He explained:
“Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. ‘I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. ... We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy.”
Trump went on to rhapsodize about his relationship with Putin — “He liked me. I liked him.” — and to praise him as someone with a lot of “charm and a lot of pride” who “loves his country.”
With those few words, Trump has just made a fool of every right-winger who has tried to pretend that he would have been tougher on Putin than Biden is currently being.
emptywheel strikes again @ 3:17!
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