White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tried to defend President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy by downplaying the results of a Wall Street Journal survey which showed that 83 percent of respondents felt the country’s economy was “poor or not so good.”
When a reporter asked about the survey during a June 7 press briefing, Jean-Pierre said that “we are in a fundamentally different place compared to when the President took office and compared to this time a year ago.” She acknowledged people’s concerns about high prices, insisting that the president understands their situation “very personally.”
