Consider the current landscape Biden faces:* The United States is now averaging more than 85,000 daily cases of Covid-19 -- up from 23,000. * The Biden administration is engaged in a circular firing squad over the CDC's recommendation that even vaccinated individuals must wear masks indoors if they live in areas where spread of the virus is high. As CNN wrote over the weekend: "The back-and-forth exposed a rare divide between President Joe Biden and members of his party and led to veiled accusations of who was to blame." Biden, likely influenced by the skepticism of House liberals for the bipartisan infrastructure deal, tweeted this out Tuesday morning : "The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will give working people a fighting chance again. In an April Monmouth University poll , 54% approved of how Biden was handling the presidency while 41% disapproved.

Source: CNN August 03, 2021 13:30 UTC