American voters usually prioritize domestic issues over foreign policy during presidential elections. But several major blunders just in President Bidenâs first year show the danger of not closely scrutinizing presidential candidatesâ records on foreign policy.
During the 2020 election, foreign policy-related questions barely came up in any of the debates between President Donald Trump and Biden. The presidential debate commission in fact pulled foreign policy from their debate topics, perhaps to hide Bidenâs weakness.
A YouGov survey in 2020 showed that 77 percent of Americans believed domestic issues were more important than foreign policy when choosing the next U.S. president. Additionally, people may have assumed foreign policy was Bidenâs strong suit, since he was a U.S. senator for three decades and vice president under President Obama for eight…