Media turn on Biden after election bill defeat, year one failures: ‘Epic losing streak’; ‘Biden is failing’
President Joe Biden promised to be a unifying leader who would restore political norms and work together with all Americans to heal the country in a time of political toxicity. But one year into his term, the president has done nothing of the sort, managing only to further anger his opponents and disappoint his allies — and now it appears he has lost favor among some of his most ardent supporters, the mainstream news media.
Several left-leaning news outlets published reports and opinion columns in recent days slamming the president in response to the apparent defeat of his sweeping plans to overhaul U.S. elections. The failure, they argued, was par for the course for Biden’s first year.
“Biden closes out Year 1 on an epic losing streak,” Axios’ Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei wrote Friday in a blistering review of the president’s floundering leadership.
“In the two months since signing the $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law, President Biden has by almost every measure bombed big time on the things that matter most. Biden, who marks one year in office next Thursday, has never been less popular nationally, after personally lobbying his party and the public on Build Back Better and voting rights — and failing,” they argued.- READ MORE
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