During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden committed to "shut down" the pandemic, fight for the working class and rescue the world's respect following four years of the Trump Administration.
While the media fawned over Biden during his campaign and the early stages of his presidency, that all began to change following a series of errors in August during his hasty military departure from Afghanistan.
Biden faced widespread global criticism after Taliban insurgents regained Afghanistan in a matter of 11 days, defeating the war 20 years after their removal by the U.S.-led forces on August 15. On August 26, during the U.S. military's mass evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, suicide bombers killed at least 183 people, including 13 U.S. service members. The U.S. avenged by projecting two drone strikes against suspected ISIS-K terrorists, one of which ended up killing ten Afghan civilians, including seven children.
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The U.S. military evacuation, which required considerable partnership with the Taliban to complete, ended a day ahead of the deadline on Aug. 30, leaving behind hundreds of U.S. citizens and tens of thousands of Afghan allies, despite Biden's promise days earlier to "get them all out." The State Department said almost 500 U.S. citizens have been evacuated in the months following the withdrawal and that many people still remain today.
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Biden's handling of Afghanistan was overwhelming to his approval ratings, which loomed in the low to mid-50s during his first six months in the White House and started a slow bleed after that. The drop was also driven by a surge in COVID-19 cases and the appalling headlines that the number of deaths under his administration had exceeded those under Trump, despite the series of vaccinations.
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Biden, who pledged to end the virus on the campaign trail, took a dramatically different tone on Monday when he told Americans that "there is no federal solution" to the pandemic and that it was up to governors — a sentiment that was much maligned by Democrats under the Trump Administration.
Until recently, the White House had no plans to provide free tests for individuals and only revealed that a plan was in the works this month after White House press secretary Jen Psaki previously dismissed the idea when NPR reporter Mara Liasson suggested it.
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