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Biden’s ‘bland leadership’ may be getting results

JOE BIDEN SEEMED CAUGHT OFF GUARD. AN AIDE HAD interrupted the President’s meeting with his economic team and a handful of CEOs on a stage in the basement of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 28 to hand him a note. “You’re trying to tell me something, huh?” Biden said. The message informed Biden that the bill to boost semiconductor-chip manufacturing in the U.S. had passed the House, news that brought a wide grin as his staff in the room applauded. “Been trying a long time,” Biden said.

The President may indeed be starting to catch a few breaks. Just the week before, Biden had contracted COVID-19, and key planks of his campaign agenda appeared dead

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