OnPolitics: What voters want from Biden

November 09, 2021
Hawaii

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers.

I hope you’re having a better start to the week than President Joe Biden as his approval rating has dropped to 38%, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.

The poll, taken Wednesday through Friday, found that Biden’s support cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.

Biden and his party are poised for a rebound, advocates argue, after the House passed a $1.2 trillion “hard” infrastructure bill late Friday, sending the measure to Biden’s desk for his signature.

It’s Amy with today’s top stories.

What do voters really want from Biden?

In addition to polling registered voters about their approval of Biden, we asked them what they want the president to do next.

has grown as concern about the COVID-19 pandemic has eased. Those who mentioned jobs, inflation or taxes totaled 16%. Those who mentioned social programs – health care, education or the progressive agenda generally – totaled 7%.

Here are the top 10 responses:

Resign/retire/quit – 20%
Economy/jobs – 11%
Unite/help the country – 8%
Immigration/border control – 8%
COVID/mandates – 6%
Infrastructure bills – 5%
Inflation – 4%
Health care – 3%
Climate change/environment – 3%
Bipartisanship – 3%

to win elections in 2022.

Ortega’s controversial run: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was ahead by a wide margin Monday in his bid for a fourth consecutive term in preliminary vote tallies for an election widely considered rigged.

FBI surveillance of Muslim communities: The Supreme Court hinted Monday it may ask lower courts to take another look at a case involving FBI surveillance of Muslims even as the government has cited national security in declining to provide evidence about the operation.

Obama at COP26: Former president Barack Obama expressed confidence at UN climate talks that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting their own climate-wrecking emissions.

several advocates expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of change.

Can this historical figure push historic change? Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, broke barriers when she became the first Black woman and first Asian American vice president of the United States. Many activists call on her to use her background to advocate for those with similar experiences.

Much of the exasperation is trained squarely at President Joe Biden’s leadership. But some frustration spills over to Harris, who was seen by social justice advocates as a champion on their behalf.

“I do believe that if anything is going to change, if there is some force within the administration to really push for change into a more humane approach to immigration, a reform to actually mirror American values, one that also values immigrants, it will come from the vice president,” Fernando García, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, said. “But we are still waiting.”

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