Biden faces political threat with East Palestine train derailment

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President Biden and the White House face a political threat over the fallout from the administrationโ€™s response to the Norfolk Southern train derailment that has left residents of East Palestine, Ohio, scared and frustrated.

Republicans have gone on the attack over the Feb. 3 derailment, questioning the urgency of the administrationโ€™s response and asking why Biden has not visited the impacted community.

Former President Trump on Wednesday accused the Biden administration of โ€œindifference and betrayalโ€ toward East Palestine during a visit there, while the mayor of the village called it a โ€œslap in the faceโ€ that Biden went to Europe before visiting the site of a potential environmental disaster. The White House said Biden has not spoken to the mayor.

Itโ€™s not as if Biden is at a political low point.

He returned late Wednesday from a dramatic trip to Ukraine and Poland to mark the anniversary of Russiaโ€™s invasion, completing a secretive and complex visit to an active war zone with no U.S. military presence.

That visit was a sign of the presidentโ€™s strength and will be used by the White House and Biden allies to both shore up support for the Western effort to back Kyiv and to counter any suggestion that Biden lacks the strength and energy to do his job.

It is part of a broadly [un]successful several weeks for Biden, who [tried] to put Republicans on defense over Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address. The presidentโ€™s approval rating increased [not really] to 49 percent, according to an NPR poll released Wednesday; itโ€™s his highest mark in nearly a year.

Yet there are real risks to the train derailment story, which took place in the traditional swing state of Ohio that has in the last decade seemingly turned against the presidentโ€™s party. Fallout from the train derailment has also hit the swing state of Pennsylvania.

Byย Brett Samuelsย andย Alex Gangitano

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