White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre became evasive when a CNN host tried to pin her down on economic realities.
“CNN This Morning” host Victor Blackwell asked KJP why Americans aren’t as thrilled with the effects of President Joe Biden’s “Bidenomics” as the White House says they should be.
“The president’s approval rating for his handling of the economy is at 37%, 30% on inflation specifically,” the host noted. “From the White House perspective, why is there a disparity between the good story, the narrative you think you have to tell, and how it’s received by the American people?”
“A couple of things. Polls don’t show everything. They don’t tell the full story, as you stated,” the press secretary responded dismissively. “We have to remember, if you look at where we were in the fall of 2022 during the midterm elections when the president delivered a historic midterm for Democrats, when we think about how, as a Democratic president, he delivered a victory that we hadn’t seen in decades, right?”
“He led that messaging throughout those months going into November, and we are in a stronger position now than we were back then in the fall. And so that is important to note,” she continued. “There is a lot going on in this country and we understand that Americans are coming out of a pandemic. We are dealing with a lot. When you think about the economy, here is the thing, this is a president who spent the last two years turning the economy around.”
“Let me ask you about something here that the branding — you used the word,” Blackwell pressed further. “We have it on screen. Bidenomics. We know the polls show that people are pretty sour, half of American people are sour on the economy. Isn’t that just dangerous getting closer to the election if things take a downturn? As the CBO predicts, unemployment will get closer to 4.7% by Election Day. You have a narrative of Bidenomics and things going a certain way, but that could quickly turn the opposite direction. Why fuse the president’s name with the economics that Americans aren’t very happy with?”
“Here is the thing. Bidenomics is indeed working when we say that you look at the data, right? Cost is going down, right? You think about inflation. When you think about wages going up, that is Bidenomics,” Jean-Pierre said.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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