People who know about American politics.,,

[CurlewKate]

Where is Kamala Harris? Just that, really....

Well as Biden is addressing the nation tonight 8pm. I'm wondering if he will be standing down. She maybe President sooner than anyone expected.

A significant number of Americans are so rabidly partisan that Biden could arrange for a 50% pay rise and a blow-job for everyone and they'd still say the economy's shit.

Views on the economy doing great? Maybe they should start looking at facts, such as 3.6 unemployment and the massive infrastructural programmes.
And if the Republicans had actually agreed to bipartisan legislation on the border instead of obstructing it for political gains it might have been better all round.

Thanks to inflation and higher interest rates polls have consistently shown a majority of Americans view the economy as poor. I agree compared to Europe the economy is in great shape but of course a lot of the numbers mask huge inequality.

Republicans were never going to vote in favour of that bill - fundamentally they wanted executive action to solve the problem not legislation.

If republicans were 'never going to vote' for the legislation then why did Lindsey Graham criticise them so much about it in the Senate?

Graham has been branded a hypocrite on a wide range of issues by both sides. Interestingly though he launched a pretty blistering attack on the Biden government's border policies just last month.

Anyway, according to the latest spin Kamala has nothing to do with it so it's all good.

The bill allowed 5,000 undocumented immigrants to cross every day. The Republicans were very unlikely to support it.

The Senate Republican leaders insisted on a border security agreement, then agreed on a compromise and then refused to vote for it. Trump wanted to exploit it in his campaign. It was utterly cynical of them.

Surely not?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-block-border-security-bill-campaign-border-chaos-rcna153607

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-immigration-asylum-reform-bill-released-senate-text-rcna136602

That's the left leaning media interpretation of what happened; I could post endless links from the centre right / right media with a completely different interpretation.

Fortunately we won't have long to wait to see how Harris's campaign plays out.

I was being facetious @twodowntwotogo but thank you for the link anyway.

Yes, too many examples to even begin as far as the Republican view point is concerned but here goes.