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How's he doing? Americans weigh in on Biden's performance
Jan 17, 2022 2 mins, 30 secs
President Joe Biden took office at a particularly polarized time in American history, so it’s not surprising that citizens are divided on his performance at the one-year mark.

A Georgia history teacher who voted for Biden would give him a “C” grade, faulting the president for not pushing earlier to end the filibuster in the Senate but supportive of his Build Back Better plan.

A registered independent in Arizona who voted for former President Donald Trump says Biden’s first year has been “pretty bad,” citing the shutdown of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.

THE TRUMP-TO-BIDEN VOTER.

Craig Prichard believes Donald Trump should be in jail.

“Trump wanted to make it look like COVID was going away,” Prichard says.

“Biden, you can tell he’s trying to handle the pandemic, food prices, gas prices, Russia, all at the same time, and he doesn’t seem to care how he looks,” Prichard says.

“Trump, turns out, only cared about how he looked,” Prichard says.

He says he supports Biden’s social policy bill that remains stalled in Congress, but thinks Democrats have done a poor job of explaining its benefits.

THE BIDEN VOTER WHO DECRIES POLARIZATION.

At a Walmart in Elko County, Nevada, a ranching region that heavily supported the former president, she’s overheard customers complain about how Biden’s agenda has permeated “Trump country.”.

“There is just a reluctance to support the current president,” the 45-year-old independent voter says.

THE BIDEN VOTER WARY OF LIBERALS.

Patrick Sweeney voted for Biden but has been disappointed the president hasn’t pushed back more against the left wing of the Democratic Party.

THE TRUMP VOTER WHO’S NOT IMPRESSED.

Eric Ollarsaba says Biden’s presidency has been “pretty bad.” But the 33-year-old Trump voter isn’t surprised.

“He’s pretty much doing exactly what I expected him to do,” says Ollarsaba, a registered independent who lives in Phoenix and works at an online car retailer.

“We’re probably going to be reliant on other countries for energy, which I could potentially see leading to another conflict, or us involving ourselves in another war,” Ollarsaba says.

THE BIDEN VOTER WHO WANTS HIM TO TOOT HIS OWN HORN.

Natalie Rawlings, a registered Democrat who voted for Biden, says the president doesn’t get enough credit for all the things that are going right, like the strong job market that has made it easier for workers to switch jobs.

THE TRUMP VOTER PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY SOME BIDEN INITIATIVES

Goicoechea, a cattle rancher from Eureka, Nevada, voted for Trump and plans to vote Republican again, but he says he’s been pleasantly surprised with the Biden administration’s agricultural initiatives, including those tailored to small family farms and ranches like his

Farms and ranches have received more than $1 billion in relief dollars since Biden took office

Gina Massiah reluctantly voted for Biden, considering him the better of two bad options

“Yes, there was a lot of division,” the Brooklyn resident says of the Trump era

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