does favor republicans according to history. presidential approval is the north star of mid-term elections, and president biden begins the year under water. you see it right there, the latest cnn polling average. 45% of americans approve of the president s job performance. 51% disapprove. the panel is back with us to discuss. arabia, if you re at the biden white house you can look at how this played out and you can see it on the screen over time. the president was above 50% when he took office and 56% and now down 13 points when it comes to approval and up 11 points when it comes to disapproval. in the summer americans realized covid wasn t going away. maybe the president on july 4th overpromised a little bit or oversuggested that covid would disappear. how does the white house, they have ten months to do it, try to change those numbers? well, i think a lot of what they tried to do is they tried to make sure that they can that they can do something to make sure that i m having so
afghanistan or the flood of migrants across the border into places like del-rio, texas, whether it s surging inflation or whether it s covid which president biden declared independence from on july 4th and we ve just gone through a really ugly surge in the delta variant, the fact is, most voters are turning against your guy. chris, i m genuinely optimistic that in the senate we re going to get the buildterd get it over to the house and the house is going to send the infrastructure bill and the build back better bill to the president s desk. here s the truth. wages are going up. covid cases are going down. jobs are getting create and filled. it s been a tough month. the delta variant has been a challenge but i believe we ve got a talented, capable, compassionate president and ultimately congress is going to do its job in getting to his
afghanistan or the flood of migrants across the border into places like del-rio, texas, whether it s surging inflation or whether it s covid which president biden declared independence from on july 4th and we ve just gone through a really ugly surge in the delta variant, the fact is, most voters are turning against your guy. chris, i m genuinely optimistic that in the senate we re going to get the build back better bill and pass it and get it over to the house and the house is going to send the infrastructure bill and the build back better bill to the president s desk. here s the truth. wages are going up. covid cases are going down. jobs are getting create and filled. it s been a tough month. the delta variant has been a challenge but i believe we ve got a talented, capable, compassionate president and ultimately congress is going to do its job in getting to his desk the two bills that will
president on what he intends to do. and what he can do about the delta variant. obviously, he s going to urge vaccinations. he s going to tell you how he s gonna keep kids safe in school. how there needs to be more testing in the country and on and on. but there has been a lot of disagreement between the cdc, the centers for disease control, and folks who work around the president about, for example, when you should get a booster shot. or when you can get a booster shot. and this is a president who in july, on july 4th, said we ve gained the upper hand against this virus. we now know that the virus mutated. and that the delta variant is something we all talk about. we didn t talk about it back then. so, the president has to be clear about next steps. and he has to tell the american public what happened and how the public needs to get vaccinated
as president, and i m going to use it. you re right. david, the president also is calling out the unvaccinated and pandemic politics, as he calls it. but could this potentially backfire and leave the unvaccinated to dig in even more? you know, it might, wolf. but what was the alternative really? you describe this as a political gamble. but i think the gamble would have been not to do this. as gloria mentioned, the president basically said we re on the right track on july 4th. and it s not just delta that put us on the wrong track, it is the stubborn resistance of some group of americans who get vaccinated. and, you know, i think he had to he had two objectives here. one is to get control of the virus. the other is to get control of the story and to make clear that he has that he is taking strong steps here and that had to include some requirements. what was interesting was in the