Biden avoids the spotlight on Election Day — with polling day polls showing 73% of voters angry or dissatisfied with the state of the United States: The president saunters away in the White House giving radio interviews and making phone calls as he prepares for Democrat defeats.
- The president, who has been campaigning for Democrats over the past few days in states across the country, gave a radio interview on The DL Hughley Show.
- The White House has called for an 11:25 a.m. cap, which means the media can go home since the president will not appear in public again on Tuesday.
- In the afternoon, Biden held a round of phone calls with Democratic activists
- On Monday, Biden rallied for Democrats in Maryland before stints in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, New Mexico and Florida over the past week.
President Biden chose to forgo public appearances to boost his party on Election Day, instead giving one radio interview before retiring from the public eye by noon.
The president, who has campaigned for Democrats over the past few days in states across the country, gave a taped radio interview Tuesday morning on the DL Hughley Show. Biden used the radio hit to tout his administration’s accomplishments to black Americans.
The White House called the 11:25 a.m. cover, which means the media can go home because the president will not appear in public again on Tuesday.
In the afternoon, the White House said Biden called a DNC virtual phone bank to thank staff and volunteers. He then spoke individually on the phone to Democratic Governors League President Roy Cooper, DCCC Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney, DSCC Chairman Gary Peters, and DNC Senior Counsel Cedric Richmond. Maloney, DNY, faces a tight re-election race today.
The president also spoke jointly with DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
President Biden chose to forgo public appearances to boost his party on Election Day, instead giving one radio interview before retiring from the public eye by noon.
Monday night, Biden rallied for Democrats in Maryland before stints in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, New Mexico and Florida over the past week.
“I’m an optimist,” Biden, who previously voted early in Delaware, told reporters about how he feels about the election on Monday. “But I’m always an optimist.
He said he believes Democrats can hold on to both chambers, but acknowledged the headwinds they face.
CNN/Edison Research director It showed that 73 percent of Americans who left the polls were angry or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, and 25 percent were enthusiastic or satisfied.
Thirty-three percent of voters cited inflation as their top concern while 27 percent cited abortion. The rest were divided between crime, gun policy and immigration as their main concern.
The president, who has rallied for Democrats over the past few days in states across the country, gave a taped radio interview Tuesday morning for the DL Hughley Show.
A Georgian voter casts his ballot on election day
A quarter of respondents felt positive about the current economy, three-quarters felt negative, and about 4 out of 10 felt completely poor.
This is far more pessimistic than the last midterm elections — in 2018 — when 68% of voters said the economy was good or excellent, and 2020, when 49% of respondents said the same.
Biden’s approval rating is 45 percent, according to opinion polls, nearly identical to that of Donald Trump during the 2018 midterm elections, when Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives but increased their majority in the Senate by two seats. But voters this time around are twice as likely to strongly oppose Biden as they were to strongly oppose Trump in 2018.
