Confidence in Biden’s ability to recover US economy after pandemic plunges 44%

Americans trust Joe Biden is declining because 44 percent say they are unsure of the president’s ability to save the economy. COVID-19, shows a new survey released on Tuesday.

new figure from one axios-ipsos poll down 8 percent from January, when 52 percent of American adults said they believed Biden would be able to help the economy recover from doom caused by the pandemic – including inflation, the supply chain barriers and maintained high levels of unemployment.

The biggest downfall is the Democrats. When Biden first took office, 86 percent said they were confident in the president’s ability to drive economic recovery, but new polls from October 22-25 show that demographic ranges from 15 percent to 71 percent. has fallen.

The confidence of independent voters has also fallen from 51 per cent in January to 9 per cent now to 42 per cent. Republican support now stands at 18 percent, a slight increase from 17 percent in January.

The dip could hinder Biden’s ability to lead the Democrats in the 2022 midterm.

Americans are particularly troubled by rising inflation, which has pushed up the prices of goods and services, which the administration has dismissed as cyclical growth despite higher-than-normal growth in the past.

Biden is ‘focusing on the wrong problem’ of trying to boost confidence in vaccines rather than economic recovery, according to poll

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein earlier this month described the economic slowdown as an “upper class problem”.

Inflation rose by 5.4 per cent from September 2020 to September 2021.

Inflation is being affected by a number of factors such as pandemics, labor shortages and supply chain bottlenecks – particularly at the Port of Los Angeles, where more than half of shipping containers arrive in the US.

Biden announced this month that a deal was struck with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with private sector companies to keep the port open 24/7 to help with delays and traffic jams.

Trucks are not arriving fast enough to unload the huge number of ships that come with containers. And now, the trucking industry may be facing labor force shortages as the vaccine mandate goes into effect.

Companies are now starting to postpone mandates until after the holiday season.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki mocked the supply chain crisis by mocking the fact that people won’t be able to get their stuff — like exercise equipment — in time for the holidays.

Despite falling economic confidence, Americans’ confidence in Biden’s ability to make a coronavirus vaccine widely accessible is growing. But barely two in 10 of 1,038 respondents believe the president can convince vaccine skeptics to take the shot.

The Consumer Price Index rose 5.4% in September from a year earlier, slightly above August’s gain of 5.3% and matching growth in June and July

Supply chain bottlenecks – partly due to pandemic labor shortages – have Americans worrying about shortages of goods during the holiday season

On Sunday, Anthony Fauci said emergency use authorization must be given by the first or second week of November for children aged 5-11 years to receive the vaccine.

Biden has taken one of the biggest initiatives of his presidency so far to get a coronavirus jab to unvaccinated people. In September, the president broke his earlier promise to never impose a vaccine mandate on the private sector by issuing an executive order for all companies with at least 100 employees to require proof of vaccination for all employees.

But Ipsos US Public Affairs president Cliff Young took the election results into account, saying Biden is ‘focused on the wrong problem’ when it comes to building trust from American voters.

‘The problem is not without vaccination,’ said Young. according to axios. ‘The problem is convincing those who have been vaccinated that they have the tools to navigate a post-COVID world.’

He also said that ‘it is important to reassure those who have been vaccinated that they can lead a normal life again’.

‘People are confused,’ Young said. ‘It doesn’t matter what the end game is.’

Only 21 percent of respondents to the survey said they believe Biden might be skeptical of a vaccine, while only 5 percent said they are ‘very confident’.