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Polls indicate infrastructure bill is popular, but Biden and Democrats don’t get any bounce
President Biden says the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which he signed into law on Monday, will help families struggling economically amid the highest surge in inflation in three decades.
"Today we're finally getting this done," the president declared at the White House bill signing ceremony. "My message to the American people is this: America is moving again, and your life is going to change for the better."
Public opinion polls indicate that the $1.2 trillion package – the largest investment in the nation's crumbling roads and bridges in decades - is getting a thumbs up from a majority of Americans.
But so far the bill – which passed the Senate over the summer and the House earlier this month - is not helping Biden boost his flagging poll numbers or aiding congressional Democrats hoping to retain the razor-thin majorities in next year’s midterm elections.
The package – which includes more than $500 billion in new spending for "core" infrastructure projects such as transportation, broadband internet, and electric utilities over the next eight years – is backed by 63% of Americans in an ABC News/Washington Post national poll conducted Nov. 7-10, after the final passage of the measure.
That support’s in-line with a USA Today/Suffolk University survey conducted in late August and a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in early October. But all three surveys indicate a partisan divide, with the vast majority of Democrats and a solid number of independents backing the bill, and most Republicans opposed. CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON OUR TOP STORY.
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Texas Dem switches to Republican Party over defunding the police, 'chaos' on the border
A Texas Democrat switched his affiliation to the Republican Party over the party's left-leaning embrace of defunding the police policies and "chaos" on the southern border.
State Rep. Ryan Guillen announced in a Monday press conference that he would seek reelection to his south Texas seat as a Republican, saying the Democratic Party's far-left values are no longer in line with his own.
Specifically, Guillen cited his now-former party’s backing of defunding the police and the compounding crisis at the southern border under President Biden.
"Friends, something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C., are not our values, not the values of most Texans," Guillen said.
"The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry, and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas," he continued.
The former Democrat had won his seat by nearly 17 points in the 2020 election and has served in the Texas House for almost two decades. Guillen's switch is a win for Republicans as the party pushes to gain traction along the historically blue border. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
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White House announcer appears to skip Harris at infrastructure signing after disastrous CNN report
The White House’s announcer at President Biden’s signing ceremony of the bipartisan infrastructure bill appeared to skip Vice President Harris’ turn to speak following a disastrous CNN report on her.
Harris appeared to be passed over at the White House signing ceremony, with the event announcer introducing union political activist Heather Kurtenbach as the vice president stood at the podium.
"In a moment," Harris quipped after the apparent snub.
The snub is very likely a flub, but it nevertheless served as a metaphor for Harris' current travails, coming just a day after a CNN report that her office is facing internalized dysfunction and an absence of focus and that President Biden's aides were fed up with hers.
Conservatives on Twitter were quick to take jabs at Harris over it, with many continuing the comparison of the vice president to fictional Vice President Selena Meyer from the hit HBO show "Veep."
The incident came the day after CNN’s revealing report on the vice president’s office operations.
On Monday, Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure package into law after months of negotiations. A spokesperson for Harris pointed Fox News to tweets from vice presidential staff as well as White House press secretary Jen Psaki's tweet defending the vice president's "vital role" in the administration. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.
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SOME PARTING WORDS
Sean Hannity on Monday evening argued that the Kyle Rittenhouse trial continues to show the media and political left rushing to judgment before a verdict.
"The same Democrats who never bother to look at video evidence or talk to eyewitnesses or collect facts, they just rush to judgment in order to score a cheap political win," the host said on "Hannity."
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