“[Biden] had a lot to deal with when he walked in”: Karine Jean-Pierre defends Biden's polling to Fox's Peter Doocy.

White House Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday defended recent polling showing Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in several swing states to Fox News' Peter Doocy.

“Why do you think Americans are so down on President Biden right now?” Doocy asked.

“What do you mean?” Jean-Pierre replied.

“I know you don't like to talk about polls like the five or six swing states that he is losing right now to somebody who is a criminal defendant,” Doocy said.

“But, more broadly, it doesn't seem like anything you guys are doing is making him more popular. Why do you think that is?”

The press secretary noted that she couldn’t directly comment on Trump, a 2024 presidential candidate, an act that would violate the Hatch Act, but spoke more broadly to Americans’ struggles.

“We are sensitive enough and open-minded enough to understand that not just this country, but globally, people have had to deal with a pandemic and coming out of that pandemic,” Jean-Pierre said. “We understand that even, you think about gas prices, and because of Putin's war, what that has occurred, that led to gas prices increasing. And the president had a lot to deal with when he walked in.”