PRESIDENT - Obama, Trump, Biden Flashcards
O - election results
2008 - defeated Rep John McCain
won 53% of popular vote.
2012 - as an incumbent, defeated Mitt Romney in popular vote (with 51%)
O - approval rating
highest approval rating was 68% and the lowest was 40%
O - key event 1
shooting in Tuscan
Tuscan shootings in Jan 2011 - a gunman shot dead 6 people - Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, and she was a political representative.
O - key event 2
Osama Bin Laden
Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden who led Al Qaeda and died in Pakistan.
O - key event 3
shooting at Sandy Hook
2012 - 20 children died and 6 adults died - galvanised him to fight for further gun control legislation.
O - failures + successes
:( Merick Garland denied a nomination hearing and DAP/DACA struck down.
:( Guantanamo Bay detention centres - trying to close them down was a massive flop because by the end of his presidency, the centre still held 41 people.
:) Obamacare - compromised on the public option and ensured affordable health insurance for all as part of his 2008 campaign.
:) Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act made it easier for people to challenge unequal pay complaints, designed to help address the wage gap.
T - election results
beat Clinton in 2016 where he received 46% of the vote share - Clinton received 48% of the vote share but won less electoral college votes.
he won KEY states like Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
T - approval rating
based on Gallup polls, T had an average approval rating of 41% between 2017 and 2021.
his lowest: 34% in Jan 2021.
T - key event 1
Coronavirus
blamed China, calling it the Chinese virus.
he did request $2.5 billion in funding from Congress for vaccine development, testing, PPE, and more in Feb 2021.
he called the virus a Democrat hoax in a south Carolina rally.
he also claimed that a drug used for malaria was proved to be effective treatment = this was a lie.
T - key event 2
BLM
June 2020 = protests following the death of George Floyd in May.
T ordered national guard units to flood Lafayette Square to use tear gas to disperse crowds of protestors because he wanted to have his picture taken holding a Bible at a battered St John Episcopal Church beyond the gates
T - key event 3
Capitol Riot Jan 6th
Trump rally in Washington where he urged his supporters to converge on the Capitol to ‘peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard’
It wasn’t until 4.17 that evening that he tells the mob to go home VIA TWITTER!!!!
he still argues that the election was stolen from them.
T - failures + successes
YouGov polling
:) created a lot of jobs - unemployment was at its lowest for over 10 years.
:) a little less (84%) believed that his second greatest achievement was to lower taxes.
:( registered voters believed that managing Covid has been awful (62%)
:( 60% of registered voters also argue that preserving the environment has been unsuccessful
B - election results
Biden V Trump
Biden won 51% of the popular vote and Trump only won 47% of the vote.
B - approval rating
April 2022
52.2% disapprove and 41% approve - due to high rises in inflation.
his approval rating among millennials and generation Z has dropped 20 points since the beginning of his presidency
B - key event 1
Afghanistan withdrawal
Aug 2021 - Biden fulfilled the Doha Agreement signed between Trump and the Taliban which provided for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan in return for a Taliban pledge to prevent Al Qaeda from operating in areas under Taliban control.
13 US service members were killed in Afghanistan bombing at the airport by a suicide bomber - Lauren Boebert.
Biden’s approval rating dropped by 7% and hit its lowest level (since his presidency began) over this.
