question is whether biden has been damaged in a way that would prevent him from recovering if and when people become more optimistic. if he doesn t get optimistic, people will get pessimistic. i think the more kind of relevant question is if inflation recedes and if the pandemic recedes, has anything happened to prevent biden from emulating clinton and obama and rising again at that point? i ll hit that point. go ahead. thank you very, very much. that is true. you can look at four presidents at this particular point or actually later on in their presidency, go one week after their first mid term, right? look at harry truman. look at bill clinton. look at barack obama. look at ronald reagan. where were their approval ratings at this point? they were all under 50% one week
dissatisfaction with the country s direction peaked. i think that the real question is whether biden has been damaged in a way that would prevent him from recovering if and when people become more optimistic. if he doesn t get optimistic, people will get pessimistic. i think the more kind of relevant question is if inflation recedes and if the pandemic reseedcedes, has anyth happened to prevent biden from emulating clinton and obama and rising again at that point? i ll hit that point. go ahead. thank you very, very much. that is true. you can look at four presidents at this particular point or actually later on in their presidency, go one week after their first mid term, right? look at harry truman. look at bill clinton. look at barack obama.