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Reports are out saying that Democrat Joe Biden is an emotional wreck over several news items that he is being kept away from, and also over several items that point to there being excellent reasons he is being kept away from top stories- because he is not capable of leading or solving any problems.
And therefore, another reason for him to be having a temper tantrum like a frustrated child is that his approval ratings are horrible, and he still- can’t touch the popularity of President Donald J. Trump.
Biden has faced a sinking of whatever popularity he once had, after many slip-ups by his administration, and also – to be honest-because Biden can’t communicate well, nor does it seem like he has anything to talk about that the American people find concerning.
The American people are worried about the cost of gas, food, housing, and about education. They are worried about shortages of many items including, food for infants, and they are worried about what they see as a disastrous invasion of foreigners- of our Southern Border.
As Daily Mail reported on Monday, Biden is “erupting’ over all it, because he is not viewed as a centralized or important figure in this mess:
President Joe Biden has repeatedly complained to aides that he is less popular to Donald Trump and expressed frustration that he was not briefed properly on the baby formula crisis, according to officials and allies.
In a White House filled with complaints that it is failing to get its message to voters, a new report reveals that biggest source of concern is the president himself.
The result is plunging morale amid fears that a string of crises is painting him as the worst Democratic president since Jimmy Carter’s calamitous time in office.
Sources told Politico that Biden recently erupted about the way he was not kept up to speed about the enormity of the baby formula shortage that gripped much of the country.
He made his feelings clear in phone calls to allies after seeing cable news coverage of young mothers in tears as they described how they worried they could not feed their children.
The result of the crises – from high gas prices and soaring inflation to shortages on shelves – has been plunging poll ratings.
‘It’s something that has bedeviled quite a few previous presidents. Lots of things happen on your watch but it doesn’t mean there is a magic wand to fix it,’ said Robert Gibbs, who was a press secretary under President Barack Obama.
‘The limits of the presidency are not well grasped. The responsibility of the president is greater than the tools he has to fix it.’
For Biden, the plunging polls mean his approval numbers are worse that Donald Trump’s at this stage in his presidency.
The president’s approval rating hovers just above 40 percent, while 41.6 percent of voters supported Trump at this point in his term, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average of multiple recent polls.
The number is now below that of every one of his predecessors since the end of World War II. Trump’s rating had long been an exception to that benchmark.
Biden reportedly refers to his predecessor as ‘the worst president’ in history and an existential threat to the nation’s democracy.
After publication, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates dismissed the Politico reports of anger and frustration as untrue.
‘This depiction of the White House is simply divorced from reality,’ he tweeted.
‘And if these claims had been brought to us before publication, we would have said as much then.’
The baby formula crisis has been a particular source of anger for the president. It has had a disproportionate effect on the sort of blue-collar families with whom he identifies.
And the infant formula crisis is certain to be a huge political issue all the way into November’s mid-terms.
There are already reports that The Food and Drug Administration is facing a federal investigation into whether it correctly followed its policies and procedures in the contamination and recall of baby formula that lead to a national shortage and the potential deaths of infants.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it would specifically review whether or not the FDA correctly conducted inspections of Abbott’s Sturgis, Mich., manufacturing facility at the center of the recall and if it correctly oversaw Abbott’s initiation of the infant formula recall.
In February, Abbott issued a recall of some of its baby formula products after one of the company’s plants was suspected of contamination of a bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii, which infected four infants, two who died. The voluntary recall included certain lots of Similac, Similac Alimentum and EleCare formula products.
The recall resulted in stores across the country facing empty baby formula shelves.
The Investigation was applauded by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who called on the FDA in March to provide answers as to why there was delayed action and the process for inspections.
“I commend the OIG for taking this critical step to get answers as to why this unreasonable delay was allowed to occur — especially when a product we feed to our babies was at the center of allegations of wrongdoing,” DeLauro said in a statement. “I hope the OIG moves speedily to uncover answers so that we can prevent this crisis from potentially happening again.”
Source: The Republic Brief