WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is down in the polls, beset by rising inflation and struggling to get his message across to voters.
And now comes a potential new stage of the coronavirus pandemic.
The arrival of the omicron variant in the United States this week has introduced an unknown variable into Biden’s presidency, one that could either add additional pressure on a White House at a low point in public opinion or offer a political lifeline to a president whose approval marks are highest on his handling of the pandemic.
