way. remember, he said, i get it. i have all this experience. i am ready to lead. well, 56% of americans, two-thirds, that means two-thirds of democrats have doubts about president biden s leadership. why is this happening? 80% of you, 80% say food costs are a problem in the economy. 79% say supply chain. 65% say covid. you see it on gas costs, housing costs, government spending. this is what s critical about this poll. look at our numbers. people feel this. that s why the president is down. this is personal. 70%, nearly 69% of americans say they ve been unable to find something they want to purchase, supply chain issues. 57% say they face delays in receiving something they want to purchase again. back to the supply chain. 50% of you say you bought fewer groceries or changed what you bought at the store. it s a smaller number, but still 40% of americans say they cut back significantly on driving
dr. fauci s message was clearly, please, go out and get vaccinated. vaccinations are up, if you look at the numbers, but most of these are boosters. what is more important right now with the dual threat if you have delta or omicron? is it to get those who are vaccinated a booster shot, and as you noted, shrink the wait period for that, or to get the completely unvaccinated to get a shot? i m not sure if we can place importance on one thing over the other. when it comes to fighting covid and combatting this pandemic, all the different things, vaccines, boosters, masks, social distancing, these are all tools in our arsenal and we have to employ all of them in order to be able to win this war against covid-19. so i asked you this question last time ump you were here, i going to ask it again. based on what you know today, what should people be thinking about in terms of holiday travel, holiday gathering? you know, those thoughts change day to day. i particularly had plans to
week was 0.4% cases. as the cases climb and the holidays collide with covid exha exhaustion. we are in a war now between the delta variant and omicron variant as to who will become king of the hill. how quickly is the virus doubling in terms of its proportion? with delta, it was doubling every couple weeks, this seems to be doubling every few days. it s pretty clearly more transmissible. there is a lot of moving parts to this very, very fast-moving epidemic here in the united states, and i think we have to take it very seriously. we re going to try to curtail the spread of omicron very seriously, and at the same time, we re trying to educate people that we re going to have to live with covid. there maybe other variants down the road and we ll have to adjust what we re doing along
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months? let s look at why. why is the president s approval down near historic low? on covid he is still above water, if you will. 54% of americans approve of the president s handling of covid, 45% disapprove. a majority disapprove in the economy. a big majority. nearly 56% disapprove. many disapprove on what joe biden promised to do. 45% say they disapprove. foreign affairs, the president also under water. let s walk closely through this. this is a signature number here. listen to these numbers. remember, joe biden ran. i get it, i m not donald trump. i can fix it. your life will get better. only 30% say biden s policies have improved the economy. 45% say they have worsened things. and 25% say no effects. add this up. 70% of americans say things are either the same or worse when it comes to the economy in joe biden s presidency. that is alarming for the democrats. and it translates again this