WH Comms Director: Americans Have a Choice Between Taking the Country Forward or Backward

BEDINGFIELD: “Well, look, Jim, you’re right, historically, first midterm for a president can be challenging. But look across the board what we’re seeing is enormous popularity for the Biden agenda, the things that he’s been able to accomplish, including lowering prescription drug costs, lowering energy bills, making the single biggest investment in tackling climate change that we’ve made in the history of the United States. We see that the things that President Biden has been able to accomplish in the first two years — almost two years of his term — is historically popular. And look, as you well know, I’m standing here on the White House lawn so the Hatch Act prevents me from talking about politics in a lot of depth, but what I will say as he has been out, the vice president’s been out, the cabinet’s been out, making the case.”