President Joe Biden focused on COVID recovery, not Dr. Seuss, NPR’s Tamara Keith says in Springfield Public Forum
Updated 9:31 PM;
At a virtual Springfield Public Forum on Thursday night, NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith said you won’t hear President Joe Biden weigh in on culture wars including over Springfield’s own Dr. Seuss while he’s pitching a pair of $2 trillion economic packages to Americans and Congress.
“If his goal was to be a president you don’t have to think about when you wake up in the morning, he’s succeeding,” Keith said, noting Biden’s avoided the fiery cultural wars and policy-by-tweet headlines of the previous administration. Instead, he’s “lowered the temperature” and stuck to “slow and steady” efforts to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control and boost the economy, Keith told moderator Ray La Raja, UMass Amherst political science professor and associate dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.