Biden Tries to Keep the Nation’s Hopes Up

Associated Press: “The upbeat heart of the president’s message is the same wherever he goes. In Detroit or Los Angeles. Syracuse, New York, or Hagerstown, Maryland. To throngs in an auditorium or a few dozen in a weathered union hall, the Democratic president declares he’s never felt more hopeful.”

“Yet this refrain of Biden’s presidency — this promise that things will get better — is butting up against his own dire political projections: A Congress potentially controlled by what he’s labeled ‘ultra-MAGA’ Republicans as he faces midterm elections that will define, and quite possibly stifle, the next two years of his term.”