Democrats Need to Change the Trajectory

Dan Balz: “Democrats need a change in the national mood: events or things to alter what Gallup and other pollsters continue to report. Here are three factors to watch:

• Whether the public mood brightens as people try to move on from the pandemic.
• What happens to inflation and whether the Federal Reserve can slow things down without triggering a recession.
• The war in Ukraine and what a prolonged conflict might do to the world economy and public sentiment toward the Biden administration.

“For now, the good jobs report is something for Biden and the Democrats to point to as progress, though recently, monthly employment numbers haven’t had any real political impact. Democrats have only a few months left to begin turning the lines on all these polls upward.”