He said the president had to deal with a number of issues as president, hindering his ability to focus on other plans and goals, according to CNN. “They just had so many things thrown at him,” Jill Biden said while in Nantucket, Mass., the network reported. “Who would have ever thought what happened [with the Supreme Court overturning] Roe v. Wade? Well, maybe we saw it coming, but we still didn’t believe it. Gun violence in this country is absolutely horrific. We didn’t see the war in Ukraine coming.” “[The President] he had so many hopes and plans for things he wanted to do, but every time you turned around, he had to deal with the problems of the moment,” CNN reported. President Biden has suffered declining approval ratings and been embroiled in a host of domestic and international issues since taking office. These include the backlash against the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, persistently high inflation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He has also faced infighting within his party that has, at times, prevented him from passing legislation on issues that are a priority for him. A recent poll also revealed that voters, including Democrats, are not very enthusiastic about a Biden presidential run in 2024, even though the White House has argued that he will run in the next election cycle. That poll has complicated an already difficult midterm environment for Democrats bracing for losses in November. But Jill Biden sounded undaunted as she spoke at the DNC fundraiser about a bleak midterm outcome. Five takeaways from this year’s Q2 fundraising Nikole Hannah-Jones, UNC reached settlement over tenure dispute “I know there are so many naysayers who say we’re going to get hammered in the midterms. Okay. Republicans work hard, stick together, for better or for worse. So we just have to work harder,” he said, according to CNN. However, Jill Biden revealed that she too had experienced her own challenges as first lady. I was saying to myself, “Okay, I was second lady. I worked at community colleges. I worked for military families. I’ve worked on cancer.” They were supposed to be my focus areas. But then when we arrived [in the White House,] I had to be, with everything that was going on, the first lady of the moment,” said Jill Biden, CNN reported.
