Wednesday 14 September 2022 05:14 AM Nancy Pelosi has her own 'please clap' moment at event celebrating Biden's ... trends now
Nancy Pelosi awkwardly struggled to excite a crowd celebrating the signing of Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday.
Touting the president's reconciliation bill as the path to drive down rampant inflation, the House Speaker was met with a lukewarm reception by the audience, who failed to cheer following her praises for Biden.
'Mr. President, thank you for unifying and inspiring a vision of a stronger, fairer, safer future for all our children. Your extraordinary leadership has made this glorious day possible,' Pelosi said, followed by a moment of silence from the crowd.
'That's an applause line,' she followed up, signaling the crowd to cheer.
Nancy Pelosi awkwardly asked an audience to clap for her praises of Joe Biden and his Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday. Pictured: Pelosi (left) with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
It comes as Democrats try to sell Biden's work in bringing down inflation, which saw a decrease in August after reaching an all time high of 9.1 percent in June
The moment was evocative of Jeb Bush's infamous 'please clap' moment, where the GOP presidential hopeful begged a crowd of unenthusiastic supporters to cheer for him during his failed 2016 campaign.
While Pelosi experienced her own flop on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was by her side to play off the awkward moment.
After she asked the crowd to cheer, Pelosi said: 'And let us salute Leader Schumer [and] his colleagues in the Senate for their extraordinary leadership and the success in bringing this bill to the floor.'
Schumer replied with: 'That's an applause line!'
The moment was part of Democrat's victory lap over the Inflation Reduction Act, designed to bolster Democrats' ahead of the November election and remind voters of the work Biden has done to ease cost of living for Americans.
President Joe Biden 's victory lap for his climate change and prescription drug prices law took a stumble on Tuesday as he celebrated its passage at the White House while the stock market had its biggest tumble in two years
Wall Street's major stock indexes dropped sharply at the opening bell on Tuesday, as the latest inflation data sparked fears that the Fed with continue its aggressive path of rate hikes
More than a thousand people were crammed on the South Lawn on the hot sunny day. Democratic members of Congress, union officials and Biden supporters were there to cheer on the president.
But the markets' downward spiral and the inflation rate for
