Many of the things Biden has promised that have not come to pass are things he needed congressional authorization for and he didn't have it. Student debt relief was not wildly popular, but I don't think that's going to meaningfully affect his reelection chances at all. The discussions over the social and climate package have soured between President Biden and Senator Joe Manchin. He was accurately reflecting the views of his constituents as much as I disagree with those constituents.
The oldest president in the history of the United States wants a second term. Vox’s Andrew Prokop and Dylan Matthews explain why Joe Biden doesn’t have any competition.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matt Collette and Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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