President Joe Biden’s victory lap this week to celebrate a string of recent victories in Congress comes as the administration faces a looming deadline to extend the public health emergency for COVID-19.
But in a sign of how much has changed since the pandemic began, Biden’s expected extension of the public health emergency may not even register as major news at a moment when many Americans are focused on the economy and the largest spike in inflation in four decades.
Far from becoming a referendum on Biden’s handling of the pandemic, the midterm elections are shaping up as a bitter partisan contest over issues like abortion, immigration, and the effort by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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