Last Wednesday, President Biden laid out his plans for the future of the country during a joint session of Congress. In the nation of 332 million, it attracted about 27 million television viewers, which Nielsen reported was “much smaller” than the first speech by other recent presidents.
The number may come as a surprise since, according to the vote count that has been disputed by his challenger Donald Trump, Biden managed to get more votes than any president in U.S. history in 2020.
The New York Times reported that former President Trump got about 48 million people to watch his first address to Congress. The paper said in 1993, President Clinton attracted 67 million viewers.
TREND FORECAST: While the nation is divided between pro-Biden and anti-Biden forces, seeing his low viewer ratings further supports our trend forecast for a new, anti-establishment political movement.
Considering Biden’s announcement to allow 62,500 refugees into the U.S. and his proposal to double that number in the next fiscal year… as with other movements we forecast that will be building across the planet, anti-immigration will be a strong component of the new political parties.
