Russia-Ukraine outcome presents little upside for Biden, but ‘downside’ possible: Strategists

Political strategists on both sides of the aisle minimized the effect that the Russia-Ukraine crisis could have on the 2022 midterm elections, with the caveat that a Russian invasion could be seen as another foreign policy failure for President Biden.

Voters tend to vote on domestic issues, the strategists said, and while Biden could receive positive marks if he helps to avert disaster in Ukraine, it’s unlikely his party would be able to translate it into electoral gains.

“It would be a good thing for him and a good thing for the country, but it’s not going to flip the fundamentals,” Fox News contributor Karl Rove explained to Fox News Digital. “The fundamentals are so bad that the effect is not going to flip this thing. People are making a broader and bigger judgment about him.” 

“I just don’t see this as a thing that will save him,” he added. 

Russia has amassed nearly 150,000 troops along its southwest border and deployed troops into allied Belarus. Russia continues to claim that it has no intention of invading neighboring Ukraine, but Biden says an attack could come in the next several days.

According to a January Fox News Poll, 54% of voters disapprove of Biden’s job performance on foreign police.

Fox News Digital spoke with Democrat and Republican strategists about how the outcome may affect the upcoming midterms, and the opinion was almost unanimous from both sides: Biden would only feel negative outcomes from this crisis. Should he maintain the status quo, it will be just that: no change in his party’s fortunes come November this year. 

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