Biden will hold full press conference for the first time in 78 days today: President will face difficult questions on the pandemic, doomed voting right legislation and poor approval rating ahead of his first anniversary of taking office

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 19 2022 | EMILY GOODIN

[knighthawk]

President Joe Biden will hold a rare solo press conference on Wednesday evening, the day before his one-year annivesary in office, where he is expected to defend his tenure in the White House and preview his plans for the next three years.

He will also likely face questions on the issues of the day - voting rights, his Build Back Better bill, his declining approval rating, Russia and the Ukraine, inflation and the Omicron variant of COVID.

His last solo press conference in the White House was in March and his last formal press conference was in October, when he was in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26. He has held solo press conferences on foreign trips and joint ones with world leaders in addition to taking questions from reporters on the fly. In total, Biden has held six news conferences on his own and three jointly with foreign leaders - a number far below that of his predecessors in the Oval Office.

[knighthawk]

"face difficult questions"??? Yeah sure...

[Blueflag]

I wonder what the operational plan is to prevent a total Charlie Foxtrot.

[teeman8r]

i bet it will be cut short with an announcement that russia is about to invade the ukraine.

[BenLurkin]

The usual. Prearranged questions and carefully rehearsed answers.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This should be cringe inducing. 🙄

[1Old Pro]

His questions will be prescreened and cover about 6 predicable topics he is well rehearsed on. He will bore us to death about his “accomplishments” and simply say they will do better and work harder.

I imagine this will be boring unless some bright reporter can actually ask some good questions. I haven’t seen many bright reporters.

This presser will probably be tight as a drum, and very boring.

[qaz123]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ……. Back to picking certain reporters for certain questions.

CornPop…..the Leader of the Free World.

[glennaro]

Somewhere there must be a complete transcript already available that contains every scripted question and every scripted response ... even the “dramatic whispers”.

[BenLurkin]

[Steely Tom]

Oh bull! “What was the biggest challenge Donald Trump left for you to clean up?”

[Magnum44]

My prediction...

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Difficult questions that were given to him ahead of time as he calls on pre-selected reporters

[Allegra]

Mistake in the headline. It’s “cheating rights legislation.”

[rainee]

Can’t wait for the hard hitting questions..
What’s your favorite color?

[Maudeen]

The real Biden????

[Red Badger]

[1Old Pro]

You can bet he changed his “writers” from that disastrous racist screed he went on in Atlanta.

[backwoods-engineer]

He’ll get softball questions, pre-arranged, from most of the media. We’ve seen this movie before.

[stanne]

“face difficult questions”??? Yeah sure... “

Tge press lives in a parallel universe. No exaggeration

[UnwashedPeasant]

”resident will face difficult questions”

The questions and answers will be scripted.