Mid-term elections in the United States: Biden’s achievements, challenges and future?

The mid-term elections, scheduled for 8, are an event in which American voters elect new members of the House of Representatives. But these mid-term elections are also a test for President Joe Biden.

The current ruling party, the Democratic Party, has a history of often losing mid-term elections. If so, has President Biden demonstrated his leadership enough not to go down that path?

And see what he can show for the rest of his two-year term.

First, the trend in President Biden’s approval rating over the past two years is not very bright.

The approval rate was good at first, but after receiving a lot of criticism for withdrawing from Afghanistan in August last year, it started to decline, dropping to a rare level for a first-time president.

As a result, as of this summer, according to a survey conducted by RealClearPolitics, only 37% of respondents supported what President Biden was doing, while 57% said they were against it.

Since then, however, Biden has slowly regained his approval rating. Indeed, in the history of the United States, there is a president who managed to re-elect himself two years later, after the approval rating rebounded in the second year.

But President Biden’s approval rate is currently stagnant. He’s not so low that he can’t see any potential customers, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to win or lose.

President Biden approved a massive economic and medical assistance package for COVID-19 as soon as his term began in January last year.

The package’s tax cuts helped lift millions of children out of poverty, a political victory the Democrats craved.

Additionally, President Biden, in partnership with Republicans, managed to pass a bill on massive infrastructure spending, including investments in improving roads and bridges, broadband Internet and electric vehicle charging stations.

Although President Biden started strong this way, he soon hit a wall.

Billions of trillions of dollars in government spending and climate action budget bills fought in the Senate and struggled with Republicans on multiple fronts, including the right to vote, gun control and the right to abortion .

It wasn’t until this summer, with midterm elections around the corner, that Democrats backed the climate and health bill package and the technology investment bill was passed.

The bill was passed only after several mass shootings, including the killing of 19 children and two teachers, in Uvaldi, southern Texas.

It has been stagnant, but is slowly showing results as it advances one step at a time.

President Biden failed to show such a great achievement as ‘Obamacare’. Indeed, to evaluate President Biden’s report card, like any other president in modern society, we need to look broadly at several key areas.

The Biden administration has already appeared unprepared several times.

The process of withdrawing from Afghanistan was chaotic as the White House failed to anticipate and prepare adequately for the pace at which the Taliban would take power in August last year.

The number of illegal immigrants crossing the border into Mexico has risen to the highest level in decades, as the number of refugees has risen again after President Donald Trump eased immigration policies introduced by former President Donald Trump .

Not only that, but the US economy has been experiencing its highest inflation rate since the early 1980s as the economy recovers so quickly from COVID-19, supply chain disruptions and rising oil prices. ‘power.

Many experts point out that President Biden’s massive incentive package has also fueled the anger.

The White House seemed unprepared in various situations, including the Omicron mutant virus outbreak last fall, the shortage of powdered milk this spring, and the Supreme Court’s “Law v. Wade” ruling overturned in June this year.

Meanwhile, President Biden announced he would return to international diplomacy as a presidential candidate, but it didn’t go as planned.

Continental Europe welcomed Biden, re-emphasizing its relations with Europe and rejoining the Paris Agreement.

However, the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left its allies stunned and also sparked conflicts with France, which broke its submarine supply contract after the US and Britain agreed to back the takeover from part of Australia of nuclear-powered submarines.

North Korea’s missile provocations continue in Asia and attempts by the US government to resume negotiations on a nuclear deal with Iran have failed.

The war in Ukraine, one of President Biden’s main foreign policy tasks, has also lost the power to unite the political world.

In particular, as oil prices rise, a growing number of Republicans do not welcome support for Ukraine.

In the past, former President Donald Trump has had a tough anti-immigration policy, including requiring asylum seekers to return to Mexico to wait while the trial is underway. But President Biden has repealed some of these hard lines.

To keep his campaign promises, he implemented a policy of canceling certain student loans (but was also involved in lawsuits) and pardoned those who had been convicted under federal law for mere possession of marijuana.

It was also the first time in US history to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court.

As the president who has appointed the largest number of judges since former President John F. Kennedy in the past two years, President Biden can also be seen as someone who has made a long mark in federal courts.

Most of the attorneys appointed by President Biden are female or of racial and ethnic origin.

Judging by current opinion polls and past history, the Democratic Party will lose at least one seat in this mid-term election.

If that happens, President Biden will resist the aggressive stance of Congress for the first time.

Republican congressmen are already planning to investigate Biden’s son’s ties to China and may also plan to focus on evacuation and immigration policies from Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, on the international side, it awaits fierce competition between the United States and its allies against China and Russia, as described in the recently published Biden administration’s National Security Strategy paper.

Furthermore, there is a risk of falling into a recession in Korea and it seems difficult to find a way to alleviate the pain caused by rising unemployment or inflation.

In addition, the Biden administration is expected to take legal action related to immigration policy, student loan amnesty and the environment. Any legal defeat will be a major political blow to President Biden as he prepares for the 2024 presidential election.

And since President Biden will soon be 80, running for re-election doesn’t guarantee he’ll be renamed by the Democrats.

Now that he is in the presidency, he must demonstrate his ability to handle all these challenges well so that he can demonstrate that he can defend himself well in future elections.