WATCH: Sarah Westwood says most people don’t think about ‘boring’ Biden
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The Washington Examiner’s Sarah Westwood called Joe Biden a “milquetoast” president on Friday, saying all eyes aren’t on him as they were on the former president.
But while his approval rating sits in the low to mid-40s, Biden has seemed relatively unscathed despite high inflation boosting recession fears. Westwood said that it’s because people don’t think about him that much.
“The average person doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about Joe Biden the way they might have about Donald Trump, who took up all of the oxygen in the news all the time,” she said on Fox Business‘s WSJ at Large.
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“So people aren’t really seeing the world, the economy, the country, through the lens of their opinion of Joe Biden,” Westwood said.
She explained that while his policies are arguably to blame for the current economic situation, people may not put two-and-two together.
“I think part of the problem is that Joe Biden is just sort of a milquetoast president. … He’s relatively boring,” Westwood said.
“I don’t think people are necessarily thinking through that connection, because he doesn’t live large in their heads the way the previous president did,” she said.
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Biden’s approval rating has fluctuated during his first two years in office. The White House has celebrated even minute increases, crediting his agenda and the Democrats’ better-than-expected midterm election results for improved ratings.
The president’s 44% approval rating, according to recent polls, is “a steady and continuing bounce” since his low of 38% on July 21, according to a White House memo.