白宫周一列举了一些过去的成功，同时淡化了一个新的纽约时报/锡耶纳学院民意调查显示，乔·拜登总统的支持率几乎接近30%，民主党人在大约两年后的这个时候，在2024年的竞选中推动不同的候选人。
白宫新闻秘书郭佳欣·让-皮埃尔告诉记者，尽管最近的调查显示，只有33%的受访者认可拜登的工作，64%的民主党选民表示，他们希望其他人在下届总统选举中成为党内提名人，但政府仍然专注于手头的问题。
“我不想在这里谈论政治，也不想进行任何政治分析，但这不是什么——将会有很多民意调查。他们将上升，他们将下降，这不是我们唯一关注的事情，”让-皮埃尔在周一的新闻发布会上说，然后注意到拜登的庆祝两党反枪支暴力一揽子计划今天早些时候。
“我们关注像今天这样的事情，签署两党枪支改革法案，这将再次拯救生命。我们还有更多工作要做吗?绝对的。我在谈论通货膨胀以及如何膨胀...这是总统的首要任务，我们已经看到了油价下跌了近30美分“在过去的25多天里，每加仑，”让-皮埃尔说。这是总统将继续努力的事情，因为我们仍然需要给美国人民以救济。"
这位新闻秘书还列举了其他优先事项，如保持就业增长和推动一项提高与中国竞争力的法案，并坚持认为，尽管奥巴马政府的支持者民调结果不佳，拜登仍将锁定这些问题也很快注意到确实显示他赢得了与唐纳德·特朗普的假想复赛。
“我们不会关注民意调查，这不是我们在这里要做的。但是我们要关注的是为美国人民提供帮助，”让-皮埃尔说。
她说:“有如此多的工作要做，总统将关注并交付这些工作。”。
尽管如此，Jean-Pierre承认民意调查中体现的普遍不满，超过75%的受访者表示美国正朝着错误的方向前进——尽管鉴于该国的两极分化，这肯定是出于各种矛盾的原因。
“我们理解美国人民的感受。我们理解。我们知道，当家庭成员围坐在餐桌旁时，通货膨胀正在伤害他们。当他们试图弄清楚，你知道，他们将如何处理汽油价格，他们将如何处理食品价格，”让-皮埃尔说。
最新的民意调查是在一系列对拜登的糟糕调查中进行的，拜登的支持率在居高不下的通货膨胀率、昂贵的汽油价格等压力下下降，甚至在政府吹捧它所说的鲜为人知的经济复苏、强劲的就业以及包括枪支和基础设施在内的其他立法突破的情况下。
泰晤士报/锡耶纳民意调查以及79岁的拜登已经是美国有史以来最老的总统这一事实，加剧了一些民主党人对他在两年内赢得连任的可行性的担忧。
但正如《泰晤士报》的民意调查所显示的那样，拜登在与前总统特朗普的预期对决中以44比41的微弱优势领先。
进一步表明击败特朗普将是民主党选民的首要任务的迹象是，在任何特定政策上，92%的民主党人在民意调查中表示，他们将在这样的竞争中支持拜登。
White House responds to new poll on Biden's low approval, Dem dissatisfaction
The White House on Monday cited some of its past successes as it played down a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing President Joe Biden's approval rating almost scraping 30% -- and Democrats pushing, at this point some two years out, for a different candidate in the 2024 race.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the administration remains focused on the issues at hand despite the latest survey, which showed only 33% of respondents approve of the job Biden is doing and 64% of Democratic voters saying they want someone else to be the party nominee in the next presidential election.
"Not to get into politics from here or get into any political analysis, [but] this is not something -- there's going to be many polls. They're going to go up, they're going to go down, this is not the thing that we are solely focused on," Jean-Pierre said at Monday's press briefing before noting Biden's celebration of a bipartisan anti-gun violence package earlier in the day.
"We are focused on things like today, signing this bipartisan gun reform legislation, which will, again, save lives. Do we have more work to do? Absolutely. I was talking about inflation and how ... that is a priority for this president, how we have seen gas prices go down by close to 30 cents per gallon the past 25-plus days," Jean-Pierre said. "That is something that the president is going to continue to work on because we still need to give Americans relief."
The press secretary rattled off other priorities, like maintaining job growth and pushing a bill to increase competitiveness with China, insisting that Biden will remain locked on those issues in spite of any poor polling -- which, administration supporters were also quick to note, did show him winning a hypothetical rematch with Donald Trump.
"We’re not gonna pay attention to polls, it's not what we're going to do here. But [what] we're going to focus on is delivering for the American people," Jean-Pierre said.
"There is so much work to be done that the president is going to focus on and deliver as well," she said.
Still, Jean-Pierre recognized the widespread dissatisfaction exemplified in the poll, with more than 75% of respondents saying America was headed in the wrong direction -- though, given the country's polarization, it is surely for varying and contradictory reasons.
"We understand what the American people are feeling. We understand that. We understand that inflation is hurting families when they are around the kitchen table. When they are trying to figure out, you know, how they are going to deal with gas prices at the pump, how they're going to deal with food prices as well," Jean-Pierre said.
The latest poll comes amid a spate of poor surveys for Biden, whose approval rating has sunk under the pressure of stubbornly high inflation, the expensive cost of gasoline and more even as the administration has touted what it says is a little-credited economic recovery, with robust employment, and other legislative breakthroughs including on guns and infrastructure.
The Times/Sienna polling -- as well as the fact that Biden, at 79 years old, is already the country's oldest-ever president -- has refueled concerns from some Democrats over his viability to win reelection in two years.
But as the Times poll also showed, Biden narrowly comes out on top -- 44 to 41 -- in the expected matchup with former President Trump.
In a further sign that defeating Trump would be a top priority for Democratic voters, over any particular policy, 92% of Democrats in the poll said they would stick with Biden in such a contest.
