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Biden: The GOP epiphany I predicted didn't come - POLITICO
Jan 20, 2022 1 min, 22 secs

After enduring weeks of withering headlines about the state of his presidency, President Joe Biden tried a new tactic on Wednesday: self-reflection.

In a nearly two hour press conference, Biden conceded he had made some misjudgments during his first year in office, acknowledged the public's frustrations with the ongoing pandemic, and resigned himself to scaling back his domestic agenda.

Biden had held only one other solo press conference at the White House during his presidency.

Biden had not publicly conceded that his Build Back Better agenda would need a dramatic revamping.

His aides seemed to delight in the coverage of how long the press conference went.

With persistently low approval ratings, Biden acknowledged both tactical and operational missteps.

At the heart of Biden’s press conference was a frustration he said he felt with the political opposition he faced.

While Biden scored a major bipartisan victory with the passage of infrastructure reform, he admitted on Wednesday that staunch GOP opposition to his presidency had caught him off guard.

“I did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn’t get anything done,” Biden said.

When asked about electoral reform, Biden said he predicted Congress could get something done.

Despite the clear blockades put up by two senators in his party to two major agenda items, Biden refrained from directly attacking those in his party

“There are certain things that are so consequential that you have to speak from your heart and your head,” Biden said, his tone rising during one brief flash of frustration in the long press conference

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