President could help Harris win in November, issue executive orders to cut student debt, or he could pardon his son Hunter
President Joe Biden signs two bills aimed at combating fraud in the Covid small business relief programs on 5 August 2022.President Joe Biden signs two bills aimed at combating fraud in the Covid small business relief programs on 5 August 2022.
In fact, the Johnson parallel should be quite happy for Biden. As the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin recalls in her recent book An Unfinished Love Story, Johnson was showered with Democratic adulation after he stepped aside, and his abysmal popularity level bounced from 57% disapproval to 57% approval virtually overnight.
So it is quite possible that there will be a Biden bounce in the last six months of his presidency, even if he is a lame duck. The question is, what will he do with it?, his vice-president and chosen heir – or whoever else replaces him as Democratic nominee – win in November. Biden has expended so much of his political capital running as the candidate to protect American democracy against the existential threat of Trump that he would find it hard to turn his back on the fight now.
He may be tempted to use those powers to highlight areas which he considers to be his greatest achievements. They include tackling the climate crisis, havingThen there are the two big conflicts that are raging around the world as his term draws to a close.
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