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Biden Suffers Political Setback With Scant Hope for Voting Bills

By Jennifer Jacobs, Jenny Leonard and Laura Litvan

After meeting privately with Senate Democrats, Biden said while he hoped lawmakers would advance the measure, “the honest-to-God answer is: I don’t know if we can get this done.” The almost certain defeat is the latest disappointment for a president battling a relentless pandemic and soaring inflation and struggling to push a sweeping tax and spending plan through Congress. And on the foreign policy front, talks with Russia to avert an invasion of Ukraine have failed to make progress.

A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday showed Biden’s approval rating at 33%, the lowest of his presidency.

Biden and Senate Democrats had begun the new year with plans to quickly advance the voting rights bill, after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin rejected the president’s economic agenda. Yet the sudden push on voting rights, highlighted in a speech by Biden in Atlanta on Tuesday, was quickly panned by civil-rights groups that accused the president of doing too little, too late on a vital issue for Black voters…

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