WASHINGTON — As President Biden stepped out of Marine One, the presidential helicopter, and walked across the White House's South Lawn towards an entrance to the West Wing, a reporter asked about his mood.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden attends a rally with Democratic nominee for Maryland Governor Moore, Senator Van Hollen and other Maryland Democrats, in Bowie
Biden, however, did not seem especially perturbed. “Well, I’m feeling — I’m optimistic,” he said before retiring for the evening. “But I’m always optimistic.” “The President made the election a choice between extreme Republicans and the progress of the last 18 months — and voters chose the President's agenda,” a Biden adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the election, told Yahoo News.
“It was an affirmation of his style of leadership — affirming democracy, uniting not dividing, and helping anyone in a crisis not just the people who voted for you,” Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who is close to Biden, told Yahoo News in an email. Biden's low key approach to the midterms, avoiding placing himself front and center in the campaign the way Trump would have,but potentially effective by political scientists and operatives. Though it is difficult to say how much he influenced any one race, the White House felt that here, too, Biden was underestimated by a media establishment once again.
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