administration. so, with all due respect to senator sanders, i think that is a terrible political decision to do if they were to do it but i don t think they will. the other thing about joe manchin you have to understand is, yes, that may be true that he has, um, financial interests in the coal industry. but west virginia has the largest coal jobs in the country. the largest amount of coal jobs in the country. the coal industry is incredibly powerful because it is one of the driving economic factors in creating jobs in that state. so, of course, as the senator from west virginia, he is going to be partial to the needs of the coal industry. so, you have to take that into consideration also. and recent polling shows that he is very popular in west virginia. he is over 60% approval righting in the state and over 60% of the people in west virginia support his position against build back better. so in this instance, joe manchin is doing a better job messaging why he is against build back be
it s about things that are long overdue. it s popular in congress, it just got delayed because of the combining of this bill, a social safety net bill. we ll get to some of that sauce annual-making later. just for jierksd how big of a win is this for a president trying to grapple with the pandemic, inflation, economy, not to mention those declining approval ratings? well, this is incredibly important because he ran on this platform that he was going to get things done and that government can work for the person people. theempb e even though he had big wins with the initial rescue plan act, 4.1 million jobs were created and growth rate in the second quarter was 6.5% and over 2 million vaccines distributed, he was getting hit absolutely hit hard in the ratings. he had an approval righting of
some of the economic ups and downs. but i think that when voters begin to lose their confidence in his ability to handle specifically the pandemic, that, you know, we have seen time and again the pandemic is at the top of every voters concern. we are not hearing that much about infrastructure reconciliation when you talk to voters. it s covid and tied to that it s already happening with losing kfls in him. we have sewn it in several polls. yeah. when it comes to handling the pandemic. and his approval righting is in the 40s nationally. some of these battleground states it s in the 30s. people in pennsylvania and virginia and wisconsin. they are worried. is there a way for biden to turn this around or is this how do you perceive this? i don t think that the problem is fundamentally one of messaging strategy. i think there is not a good message to sell right now. that doesn t mean that s going to be the case forever, right? maybe the time of the midterms next year we ve go
it s now getting farther for them and it s more difficult and over recess they faced the angry town halls of folks upset about the idea of losing pre-existing conditions. so while you have some movement, it s not clear that this is a breakthrough that is actually going to get to the magic number of passing. but to be clear, they wouldn t lose coverage, they could be charged more if they have pre-existing conditions if their state applies for and gets a waiver. a waiver that would not be allowed for members of congress who would be exempted from it, which is terrible. we have donald trump the president now at 44% approval righting. you can see how that stacks unit of all the other presidents at their 100 days. and we re told we got a little tour, behind the scenes tour from someone close to the commander in chief of this war room about the first 100 day activity where they are trying to really stack up some priorities and some wins here,