NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor: WH has ‘messaging issue’ when poll shows voters blame Biden, not Putin, for inflation

NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor offered a warning to the Biden White House following her network released devastating polling data for the president. 

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell began the discussion by citing the “catastrophic” poll from NBC News that showed President Biden reaching his all-time low from the network at only 40% job approval.

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The poll also showed that 38% of Americans blame President Biden and his policies for inflation while only 6% blame Russian President Vladimir Putin, who the Biden administration attempted to pin America’s economic woes and soaring gas prices on in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Mitchell asked Alcindor how Biden can “focus on the economy,” which remains a high-priority issue with voters. 

“What this poll essentially tells the president and Democrats is that they have to be messaging better, that they have to be talking about the things that Americans are listing as their priority,” Alcindor said. “Ukraine, of course, is something that the president didn’t pick to be talking about, but he had to deal with that. And when I talk to White House officials, they understand that there is this this this real messaging issue that has to happen, especially when you look at this poll, the number that jumped out to me was the fact that 38% of Americans are blaming Biden’s policies for inflation and gas prices and only 6% are blaming Russia.”

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