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The White House on Sunday hosted the first Easter Egg Roll since 2019 but it didn’t take long for President Joe Biden to create another embarrassing moment.
First Lady Jill Biden and the president sat next to one another on the South Lawn to read a children’s book. However, the situation soon took an odd turn when Joe Biden sat down next to the first lady and said they weren’t going to let him do any reading.
“Ok, so I’m quickly going to read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, so you’re all not soaking wet,” Jill told the assembled audience as it appeared to be raining.
“They’re not going to let me read at all,” Joe then piped up as Jill can be seen chuckling.
“Here, you can start us off,” Jill told the president as she handed the book to him to hold.
After reading a few lines, Joe handed the reading and speaking duties back to the first lady and just held the book for her.
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JOE BIDEN: “They’re not going to let me read at all” pic.twitter.com/MTafAgJQtr
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The exchange comes amid new polling showing the president and his vice president, Kamala Harris, severely underwater with voters, both serving as an anchor for the Democratic Party ahead of the November midterms.
A recent poll from I&I/TIPP asked voters: “In your opinion, how likely is it that Joe Biden will complete his first term in office?”
It adds:
Predictably, most Americans (71%) said Biden was likely to last through his four years. But 21%, or one in five, said it was “not likely” he would last.
A closer look at the data provides little comfort for Biden’s own pollsters and political advisers.
Just 45% of those responding said it was “very likely” Biden would last. Some 25% said it was only “somewhat likely,” hardly a vote of confidence in Biden’s presidential future. Another 8% said they are “not sure.”
And, as often in recent years, the poll’s results are deeply skewed by political affiliation. Some 90% of Democrats believe Biden will make it to the end of his term, while 49% of Republicans do. Once again, independents split the difference at 66%, though they are closer to the GOP than to the Dems.
Meanwhile, only 6% of Democrats say it’s “unlikely” Biden will last, compared to 43% of Republicans and 22% of independents.
In addition, the survey also exposed troubling thoughts regarding Harris.
The I&I/TIPP Poll asked: “How confident are you that Vice President Kamala Harris would be an effective commander-in-chief against an adversary posing a military threat to the United States if she were to become President?”
Only 45% of Americans said they would be “confident” in Harris, with just 25% saying “very confident.” An equal 45% said they’d be “not confident,” with 30% of that total saying “not at all confident.”
In January, a Gallup survey provided Republicans with some very good news as they seek to take back control of the House and perhaps even the Senate during the midterms, effectively making Biden a two-year lame-duck president.
According to the survey, there was a 14-point shift to Republicans from Democrats in the fourth quarter of 2021.
“In the first quarter of 2021, 49% of U.S. adults identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, while 40% identified as Republicans or leaned Republican,” Gallup noted.
“In the second quarter, 49% were Democrats or Democratic leaners, and 43% were Republicans and Republican leaners. In the third quarter, 45% were Democrats and Democratic leaners, and were 44% Republicans and Republican leaners. In the fourth quarter, 42% were Democrats and Democratic leaners, and 47% were Republicans and Republican leaners,” the pollster added.
The GOP’s five-point edge in the fourth quarter is the party’s biggest over Democrats since Gallup began taking the measure in 1991.
The Daily Wire added: “The only other quarters the GOP held a five-point lead were in early 1995, after the GOP seized control of the House for the first time in four decades, and the first quarter of 1991, after the U.S. victory in the Persian Gulf War.”
The survey’s findings came as Biden’s approval slipped to 33 percent.
“Americans give President Joe Biden a negative 33 – 53 percent job approval rating, while 13 percent did not offer an opinion,” Quinnipiac University reported. “In November 2021, Americans gave Biden a negative 36 – 53 percent job approval rating with 10 percent not offering an opinion.”
