But after days of indulging in diplomacy patting on the back at a time when bipartisan cooperation is lacking at home, Biden stepped out to his press conference on Sunday in hopes that both bills would pass. by the House next week and downplaying the polls.
“Polls will go up and down and up and down,” Biden said. “Look at all the other presidents. The same thing has happened. But that’s not why I ran. “
One of the reasons Biden sought the presidency, after more than four decades as a senator and vice president, was for meetings like the Group of 20, where he can practice the politics of meat pressure that he has long enjoyed. .
World leaders have been slow to meet in person as the pandemic has dragged into its second year, but Biden attended a meeting of the Group of 7 in England in June that was something of a diplomatic icebreaker for rich countries. The summit in Rome brought together a larger group of leaders, although some of Biden’s biggest rivals on the world stage, such as Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin of Russia, stayed home.
Biden and other world leaders said the return to the in-person talks changed the dynamic.
Mario Draghi, the Italian prime minister whose country hosted the summit, told a news conference that attendees were more willing than in the past to tackle climate change, inequality and other issues that would require collective action to fix them.
“Something changed,” Draghi said.
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