Since the end of July, Joe Biden has signed into law three significant pieces of legislation, his party has won a closely fought special election in a bellwether New York congressional district, and Donald Trump has gotten himself into another legal jam.
In politics, August is sometimes known as the “silly season,” when elected leaders and voters alike go on vacation, and trivial stories tend to dominate the news. Not this year, and especially not for. As the seventy-nine-year-old President prepares to give a prime-time speech in Philadelphia, on Thursday, he is arguably enjoying the best month of his Presidency.
On Tuesday, Biden travelled to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he promoted his Safer America Plan, which would provide new federal funding to help localities hire an additional hundred thousand police officers nationwide for community policing, and invest in crime-prevention and mental-health strategies. After enduring a terrible twelve months politically, Biden finally has reasons to smile.
/Ipsos confirmed that many voters regard rising prices as the main problem facing the country. Biden’s nightmarish twelve months in the polls coincided with a dramatic spike in inflation, especially of energy prices. Since the middle of June, however, the average nationwide cost of gasoline has fallen from more than five dollars a gallon to $3.85, according to A.A.A. And inflation in July was down a bit from the previous month, as well, despite remaining at an extremely elevated level of 8.
Biden isn’t responsible for the recent fall in gas prices, just as he wasn’t responsible for their rise; the downturn primarily reflects lower-than-expected worldwide demand. But, by ordering large releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, calling for a suspension of the federal gas tax—a call that Congress ignored—and expressing support for the Federal Reserve’s efforts to bring down inflation, the President signalled to the American public that he got it.
On the political front, August also gave Democratic voters and activists, many of whom had entered their own deep malaise, something to cheer. A
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