Biden’s recent approval of an oil project is likely an attempt to gain support among swing voters. While many supported Biden’s decision to greenlight oil production, environmentalists were outraged. According to the Progressive Policy Institute’s Paul Bledsoe, the “White House feels the president has strong climate credentials but that he does need to reach out to working-class voters in swing states who care about gasoline prices.”
From The Washington Examiner:
It’s the headline that matters, not the actual policy, which is why voters should be wary and wait to see if Biden follows through and makes sure this project becomes reality. For, on the same day Biden announced the Willow project, he also banned oil development in the Beaufort Sea and the construction of any new pipelines to the Petroleum Reserve. ... Energy is not the only issue on which Biden is pretending to tack to the center. The White House recently floated the possibility of ending the crisis at the southern border by detaining families arrested as they enter the country illegally. But thanks to a 2015 court decision, the maximum time Immigration and Customs Enforcement may detain any family is 20 days. That is nowhere near enough to adjudicate an immigrant’s asylum claim, which can take years.
