"Biden's problem isn't just that several things have gone wrong; it's that nothing seems to be going right." Presidents often run into trouble during their first year in office, and some manage to recover. Ronald Reagan took the economy into a deep recession in 1981 and lost 26 House seats the next year, but once the economy recovered he was reelected by a landslide. Biden's challenge is finding his own path to recovery — a way to bring about that "reset" his pollster talked about. After months of delay, the House of Representatives gave him a boost on Friday by passing his $1 trillion infrastructure plan in a bipartisan vote.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 08, 2021 20:51 UTC