All presidents are forced to balance competing priorities and demands. But rarely do the days leap between the global, ecumenical and domestic in such a short timespan as they did for Biden on Thursday
NEW YORK — Early Thursday, President Joe Biden issued a statement announcing a raid by U.S. armed forces that resulted in the death of the leader of ISIS.Hours after that, he jetted off to New York City for meetings with police and community leaders.
As Biden was finishing an unrelated call with French President Emmanuel Macron, he received updates on the raid that would result in the death of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi from his national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Sullivan ran back and forth from the Situation Room to brief the president until Biden was able to join everyone to watch a video feed. The room remained mostly silent and tense, as one senior administration official described it, until Gen.
“There are very few presidential days that are transformational for someone's political fortunes — 9-11 was one and there haven't been a hell of a lot of others,” said Matt Bennett, co-founder of the moderate think tank Third Way. “But this has been a pretty good day, and it has allowed Biden to recast himself a little bit and show some steel.”
When Biden ran for president in 2020, many of the country’s police unions sided with Donald Trump. And they remained fearful that the Biden White House would pursue far-reaching reforms to address police brutality and killings of Black people. “Enough is enough because we know we can do things about this but for the resistance you're getting in some sectors of the government,” he said. “The answer is not defunding the police.”
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