Biden has suddenly decided to hold a 4pm press conference today, supposedly marking his first year in office. I believe the press conference will be held at 4PM. I’m sure it will be a doozy:
FOX NEWS – President Biden is set to hold his first formal press conference in months Wednesday afternoon — a day before the one-year anniversary of his inauguration.
The press conference will be the president’s 10th since taking office. Biden has held fewer press conferences than his five predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, having done six news conferences on his own and three jointly with foreign leaders.
As the president marks 12 months in office, his standing with Americans remains underwater.
Averages of the most recent national polls compiled by both Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight put Biden’s approval at 42% and disapproval at 52%.
Biden’s approval rating hovered in the low to mid 50s during his first six months in the White House. But the president’s numbers started sagging in August in the wake of Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and following a surge in COVID-19 cases this summer among mainly unvaccinated people.
The plunge in the president’s approval was also fueled by the surge since the summer in consumer prices and to a lesser degree the surge this year of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. along the southern border with Mexico.
Biden’s approval ratings average has hovered in the low 40s and his disapproval ratings average in the low 50s since mid-October.
But a Quinnipiac University national poll grabbed headlines last week when it measured the president’s approval at just 33%. A White House memo described the survey as an “outlier.”
How many softball questions do you think he’ll get? Who will ask him his favorite color???
Surely Biden is going to use one of his Joementia pre-selected lists, and I’m betting he doesn’t take that many questions. I’ll be shocked if it lasts 45 minutes.
We’ll post a live stream of the press conference when it happens.