Biden's willingness to break conventional presidential wisdom on full display as he heads to the beach - CNNPolitics - 0 views
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Political wisdom might ordinarily dictate that a president in need of certain senators' votes not publicly scold those lawmakers in public.
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It might also prevent a leader once labeled "sleepy" by his rival from escaping to the beach in the middle of the workweek for his wife's milestone birthday.
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Yet President Joe Biden did both of those things this week, apparently unbothered with conventional politics or rote partisan backlash. Approaching the five-month mark of his presidency, Biden instead appears confident enough in his standing to discard certain unwritten rules of the job, even as he settles into a more traditional presidency than the norm-bending tenure of his predecessor.
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