{"id":1225877,"date":"2022-01-19T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225877"},"modified":"2022-01-19T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T00:53:32","slug":"joe-biden-claims-he-outperformed-in-first-year-of-office-during-meandering-112-minute-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-claims-he-outperformed-in-first-year-of-office-during-meandering-112-minute-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Claims He &#039;Outperformed&#039; in First Year of Office During Meandering 112 Minute Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-claims-he-outperformed-in-first-year-of-office-during-meandering-112-minute-press-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225877&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1-Biden-Press-Conference-Emotional-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden defended the first year of his presidency at a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, refusing to change course amidst record-low approval ratings of his job performance.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a reporter if he overpromised Americans what he could accomplish as president, Biden replied, \u201cI didn\u2019t overpromise. And I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden stayed at the press conference for about 112 minutes, taking over two dozen questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">claimed<\/a> he did not believe the polls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/19\/poll-joe-biden-approval-rating-hits-record-low-as-he-reaches-one-year-as-president\/\">reporting<\/a> that 59 percent of independents disapprove of his job performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe the polls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But he also pointed to similar modern presidents who faced low approval ratings of around 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged his failed Build Back Better bill might have to get broken up to get some of his future legislation passed through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m confident we can get pieces, big chunks of the Build Back Better law signed into law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden flashed several signs of emotion as he struggled to directly answer questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He grew angry when a reporter asked why he compared many U.S. senators, including in his own party, to historical racists for opposing his bill to federalize elections. He&nbsp;expressed regret he had not done enough travel to hear more from Americans about their concerns and said he would do more in the coming year to sell his policies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden struggled to sound a clear note on defending Ukraine from Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting it was almost a foregone conclusion that he would invade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[H]e will move in, he has to do something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When asked to comment on his failures, Biden repeatedly blamed Republicans and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for not having an agenda and opposing his.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has one straightforward objective,\u201d Biden complained. \u201cMake sure that there\u2019s nothing I do that makes me look good in his mind with the public at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed the coronavirus pandemic and the weather for images of empty shelves in stores and high inflation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president was defiant when asked about his messy exit from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make no apologies for what I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden grew annoyed about questions about his stalled agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you think of any president that has done as much in one year?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Biden acknowledged that Americans were concerned about the future of the country but claimed he was leading it in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the trajectory of the country? Is it moving in the right direction now?\u201d he asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know how we can say it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden defended the first year of his presidency at a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, refusing to change course amidst record-low approval ratings of his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}