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Biden’s empathy shapes policy, but some voters don’t feel it

FILE - President Joe Biden stands with Juliana Graceffo, a high school student with diabetes, April 22, 2022, during an event at Green River College in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle where Biden spoke about high health care costs, including the cost of insulin. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark the start of monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, July 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) FILE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the Surfside Wall of Hope & Memorial in Surfside, Fla., July 1, 2021, for the people missing after the condo tower that collapsed earlier in the week. The Bidens spent the day meeting with first responders, local and government officials and visiting with families who have been impacted by the collapse. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden comfort Principal Mandy Gutierrez as Superintendent Hal Harrell stands next to them, at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File) FILE - President Joe Biden listens during a briefing with first responders and local officials in Miami, Thursday, July 1, 2021, on the condo tower that collapsed in Surfside, Fla., last week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - President Joe Biden talks with people as he tours a neighborhood in Louisville, Colo., Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, that was impacted by the recent wildfire. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - President Joe Biden talks to a person impacted by Hurricane Ian as he tours the area on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) FILE - Heavy rains flood the front yard of Lowndes County resident Charlie Mae Holcombe, Feb. 21, 2019, in Hayneville, Ala. Holcombe keeps her grandchildren out of the front yard because she fears contamination from the failing wastewater sanitation system at her home. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett, file) FILE - President Joe Biden hugs Mia Tretta, a survivor of the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, Calif., after she spoke in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Biden’s empathy shapes policy, but some voters don’t feel it