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So help you God, so help me God,

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congratulations mr President. It's been one year since joe

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biden kicked off his presidency during a period of national

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crisis with a message of unity and hope today on

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this january day, my whole soul is in this

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bringing America together uniting our people. Biden was elected

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to office on promises he would heal the country's partisan

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divides and the unrelenting pandemic and get the economy back

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on track. Now as he approaches his one year

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mark in office, hopes for progress on many of

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those pledges have dimmed. There's a lot of talk

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about disappointments and things we haven't gotten done. We're

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going to get a lot of them done. I

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might add, biden begins his second year with inflation

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at a 40 year high omicron cases skyrocketing and his

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big domestic spending plan still stalled in Congress. His

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push for voting rights reform also apparently doomed the second

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hit to biden's agenda by members of his own party

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. And I think that biden, I underestimated how

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difficult it would be to bring together all the factions

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within the Democratic Party. For sure, and perhaps

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the country as a whole fading is the talk of

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bridging partisan divides. Not a single republican has displayed

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the courage to stand up to a defeated president so

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much for unifying the country and working across the aisle

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. He has been slow to adapt or to sort

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of fully recognize and appreciate just how polarized the country

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is to be sure the biden White House can claim

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a series of accomplishments in its first year, including

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a massive$1.9 trillion covid relief bill and a bipartisan

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infrastructure package that eluded biden's predecessors. He's marked some

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500 million vaccine shots in arms, steered more judges

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to the federal bench than any president since Ronald Reagan

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and reestablished relations with us allies. I'm sending a

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clear message to the world. America is back.

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But there were crises along the way as well,

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from a chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan to an

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influx of migrants flooding the southern border and a resurgence

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in covid cases. Shortly after declarations of victory.

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Today we are closer than ever to declare our independence

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from a deadly virus. By late summer, biden's

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once solid poll numbers were taking a dive. The

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flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan. That was the specific moment

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that you saw his numbers go from being in the

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black in the red and then he hasn't been able

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to get it back. Biden is hoping to reset

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his administration's narrative and declare a couple more victories in

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time for the high stakes midterms just over nine months

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away. But add to biden's second year challenges some

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political headwinds, the sitting president's party almost always loses

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seats in midterm elections and with already razor thin margins

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in both houses of Congress, biden's uphill battle.

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Year one could be an even steeper climb year to

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kelly. Daschle, the Associated Press