Here's What Jen Psaki Blames for Biden's Titanic-Level Poll Performance
Spencer Brown
Posted: Oct 08, 2021 4:20 PM
President Biden's flagging popularity with the American people is not anything of a secret, nor are the reasons for his tanking job approval numbers. There's the botched Afghan withdrawal, lasting unemployment and inflation, his alleged plan to defeat COVID, back-and-forth Wuhan coronavirus mandates, and many more broken promises that have seen many Americans — especially independents — stop supporting him. Not only do they not support his actions so far, a majority of Americans now say Biden doesn't have the competence to run the government according to this week's Quinnipiac poll. And now the White House press corps is asking questions about what's going on.
Raising Biden's "very tough approval ratings these days," AFP's Sebastian Smith asked Psaki what's gone wrong. "You might say that they don't mean anything" he noted, adding "when there are good polls you publicize them so what do you make of these really terrible polls?" Smith asked before giving Psaki a menu of explanations to choose from: "He's doing something wrong? Is it just the communication? Is he doing unpopular things that have to be done? Or something else?"
Psaki opted to go with none of those explanations and instead spun a blame-avoiding tale of why there's nothing wrong with the way President Biden has governed and instead it's the fault of unvaccinated Americans... because of course.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/10/08/psaki-230-n2597156
