White House's latest challenge is sour public mood

“You have a whole cross section of folks who found Trump unacceptable as president, just from a personality and ethics standpoint, but those people have turned on Biden because of day-to-day quality of life issues like filling up the grocery cart, being able to walk down the street, having my kids in school learning,” said Stewart Verdery, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush…

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A summer of low COVID-19 infection numbers similar to last year, paired with good economic news, could be enough to convince voters the White House’s agenda is putting the country on the right track.

“I think especially during the summer and into autumn, that’s a completely different political world than the one we’re in right now,” said Max Burns, a Democratic strategist.

“Once people are three or four months away from this, it becomes less of an immediate annoyance,” added Burns, who is an opinion contributor for The Hill. “This is all frustration of people who have sacrificed a lot and want to go back to normal. And once that normal is back, I think people will reset the baseline to what their sense of normal is.”

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