Significant news coverage and record-low approval polls from the mainstream media are the latest evidence that the United States is turning sour on the president. Joe Biden.
The New York Times published two pieces on Wednesday comparing Biden to the former president Donald Trump Despite building his administration on the promise that he would separate from his controversial Republican predecessor.
The pieces cite Biden’s handling Afghanistan He also discredited himself while Trump was in office, turning his back on the withdrawal and the ongoing border crisis, policies and decisions.
One Article The headline ‘Biden Pushes Detente Border Policy After Promising ‘Humans Approach’, echoes scenes that forcefully target migrants trying to cross the chest-deep waters of the Rio Grande on horseback this week. and went out to charge.
The news said, ‘The photos are directly of former President Donald J. Could have come from Trump’s immigration playbook.
The same day, a new Harvard/Harris poll indicated that Trump, for the first time since losing the 2020 election, has overtaken Biden in approval ratings.
Biden received some unflattering comparisons with President Trump from top media organizations this week, while polls show American voters may like him less than Republicans
Biden has tried to distance himself from Trump’s harsh border policies
It comes a day after the Washington Post’s White House bureau chief reprimanded the president for shutting down questions from US reporters during a presidential meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.
The Times ‘Border’ story published on Wednesday suggests the Biden administration had promised a more ‘humanitarian’ approach to dealing with immigration, but under a Trump-era COVID rule to evacuate asylum-seeking migrants on the spot. Accelerating usage. Specifically, to evacuate about 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants from a camp under the Del Rio Bridge in Texas.
The story claimed, ‘Deportation is a vivid example of how Mr. Biden … is deploying some of the most aggressive approaches to immigration that Mr. Trump has implemented in the past four years.’
It quotes Latino civil rights leader Marissa Franco, ‘The question being asked now is this: How do you really differ from Trump?’
One op-ed Published the same day with a scathing headline aimed at Biden: ‘The Untrump Presidency Slams into Trumpness’.
Writer Frank Bruni writes, “Biden is not drawing enough contrast with Trump, noting that Biden’s deportation of Haitian immigrants has called for comparisons with his predecessor.
Biden’s handling of the border crisis prompted an immigration advocate to ask: ‘How exactly are you different from Trump?’
“The kind of border rigging caused by Trump’s incompetence and insensitivity has returned and dominated the news once again,” Bruni writes.
Bruni also noted that Biden’s decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan by August 31 took the Allies by surprise.
“He pulled out of Afghanistan without the consultation, coordination, and capacity that allies had hoped, at least not a US president named Trump,” he writes.
With the abandonment of thousands of Afghan allies, Bruni said, Biden also failed to live up to the sympathetic image he designed to distance himself from the cold, caustic notion of the Trump administration.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post, another legacy media organization, also joined in criticizing Biden.
White House bureau chief Ashley Parker also called on Trump on Tuesday night, when Biden met with Johnson in DC.
Biden’s return to Afghanistan and the abandonment of US allies there has also prompted comparisons to Trump
Significantly, Biden, who promised to restore democracy four years after Trump, ran for the post. But today it was British leaders, not Americans, who exposed a key tenet of a prosperous democracy – respect for a free press – by questioning their press corps,’ Parker tweeted.
Biden did not recognize any American journalists for questions during the Oval Office meeting with Johnson – and his aides lashed out at reporters when they tried to question the president.
White House staff also interrupted Johnson as he pushed reporters out of the room, shouting at the British prime minister as he and Biden sat in their chairs, a chaotic scene as Oval Office reporters pulled out.
As reporters were pulled out, CBS White House reporter Ed O’Keefe shouted a question asking Biden about the situation at the US-Mexico border. The administration is facing backlash and criticism after images of US Border Patrol agents riding on horses to siege migrants or prevent them from entering US soil.
The Washington Post’s White House bureau chief Ashley Parker criticized Biden in a tweet Tuesday night
President Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Oval Office at the White House
But White House aides shouted “thank you” and “let’s go” to the press in the room, lashing out at them as Biden tried to address the issue.
Between the masked shouts of his aides and the president, it was impossible to tell the majority what Biden said.
The newspaper’s attitude towards Biden reflects the nation’s great dissatisfaction with the president in the midst of several crises.
Support for Biden fell dramatically to 46 percent by September following the country’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan, a crisis at the southern border with Mexico and a stalemate in Congress over his infrastructure bills, according to Harvard/Harris data.
Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating remains at around 46 percent since 2020 and has surpassed Biden’s after rising to 48 percent in September.
Mark Penn, co-director of the Harvard/Harris survey, said, “The growing issue on all fronts has led to the surprising conclusion that Trump is now seen as as good a president as Biden, suggesting that honeymooners may be a buyer.” needed.” to be replaced by repentance.” told the Times.
A new Harvard/Harris poll found that most people regret voting for President Biden as their approval ratings fell over the summer while Donald Trump’s ratings saw a slight rise.
The poll comes as Biden held talks with Democrats at the White House on Tuesday in an effort to reach an agreement on a $1.1 trillion infrastructure deal and a new $3.5 trillion social spending bill.
It also stands in the wake of a new migration crisis in Texas as thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, cross the Rio Grande and settle in camps outside the city of Del Rio.
It was also revealed that after a failed attack to kill an ISIS-K terrorist, the US accidentally killed 10 people, including an aid worker and seven children.
The Harvard/Harris poll also found that 55 percent thought former Vice President Mike Pence was a better vice president than his successor Kamala Harris, and 63 percent thought Mike Pompeo was better than Anthony was a better secretary of state . blink an eye
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