CNN host Victor Blackwell challenged White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the unpopularity of Bidenomics while the administration maintains it’s working.
He claimed, “[Biden’s] approval rating for his handling of the economy is at 37%, 30% on inflation specifically.” The host then asked, “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.”
From Fox News:
She mentioned Bidenomics and how Biden’s team is talking to Americans about how “Wages are actually going up, about how inflation is going down over a long extended period of time.” She said that consumer confidence is up and again reiterated that polls “don’t tell the entire story.”
Blackwell then asked the Biden official about her use of the Bidenomics brand in relation to polls showing Americans’ disapproval. “We know the polls show that people are pretty sour, at least half the American people are sour on the economy. Isn’t that just dangerous getting closer to the election if things take a downturn?”
He asked, “Why literally fuse the president’s name with the economics that Americans aren’t very happy with?”
Jean-Pierre replied by insisting that Bidenomics “is indeed working,” and cited costs going down and wages going up. She added that Biden “understands what the American people have gone, go through, right, sitting at the kitchen table once a month trying to figure out how to pay those bills.”
Watch the exchange above.