Biden's first press conference delivers head-scratching moments & ammunition for GOP
There were hesitations, a gaffe, and one senior moment. But for 59 minutes, President Joe Biden cleared the low bar for success by fending off questions about the crisis at the border, bringing home troops from Afghanistan, and his plans for gun control by simply saying wait and see.
The result was a partisan verdict for a partisan country. Supporters welcomed the return of what they saw as humanity and normalcy to the White House, while Republicans picked over the verbal stumbles and began parsing the president’s words for ammunition to fuel attacks for days to come.
And a throwaway comment about Republican proposals to change voting laws that would make “Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle” might have left viewers scratching their heads, trying to work out if he was referencing some long-forgotten politician with a moderate line in racism.
Show of hands time: can anyone here imagine anything Biden could have done or said at his press conference that would have earned a positive word from Counselor706 here?
