7 Things: Biden bumbling toward a world war, conservative Brooks-backers stand firm as Durant works for Trump endorsement and more …

7. Alabama unemployment rate has dropped

• The Alabama Department of Labor (ADOL) announced that the unemployment rate in the state has reached 3%, which is the lowest rate seen in the state since November 2019. The unemployment rate had been stuck at 3.1% for several months.

• ADOL secretary Fitzgerald Washington called the unemployment numbers for February “great numbers,” adding “[W]e’re hopeful that we will only see them improve as the year progresses.” He also detailed how the wages are seeing an increase and hitting “new record highs, each with yearly increases of more than $100 per week!”

6. Gas prices hurting Alabama the most

• Gas prices have finally plateaued after increasing at an unsustainable rate, and new studies have shown that Alabama has been negatively impacted by the increase the most in the country. SmartAsset conducted the study using six points.

• The six factors were estimates on how much an individual would spend on gas related to the percentage of income, the one month change in gas prices, a one year change in prices, households with one car, households with two or more cars, and miles traveled in a year per capita. In Alabama, gas spending is at 4.25% of the median household income.

5. Biden’s approval rating is tanking

• New polling data from NBC News shows that President Joe Biden’s approval rating has continued to fall and is now at only 40%, which is the lowest seen in his presidency so far. In January, Biden’s approval rating was at 43%.

• The poll also showed that 55% of people disapprove of Biden’s performance as president. Among women, Biden went from an approval rating of 51% to 44%, with black respondents, he went from 64% to 62%, with Latinos, he went from 48% to 39%, and among independent voters, he went from 36% to 32%.

4. Brooks continues to pound Shelby and McConnell

• U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) has previously commented on U.S. Representative Mo Brooks’ (R-Huntsville) bid for U.S. Senate, saying that his campaign is failing. Brooks recently took a shot at Shelby and blamed him for the national debt, tying some of these problems to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as well.

• Brooks said, “Richard Shelby is probably more responsible for (America’s) $30 trillion debt than any other person in the United States of America. His length of service is power on the Appropriations Committee. Now, if you like the gravy train, he’s great at giving you the gravy.”

3. Jockeying in the U.S. Senate race is continuing

• Last week, it was announced that U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) had lost the endorsement from former President Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate race, but the Club for Growth PAC, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and others have announced that they will continue standing behind Brooks. Club for Growth PAC president David McIntosh said they’re standing by Brooks, adding, “[A]nd we believe he is the only principled, pro-growth conservative in the race.”

• Meanwhile, Mike Durant is trying really hard to get that Trump endorsement. Not only did he meet with Trump last week, but he went on Alabama Public Television’s “Capitol Journal” and said every word the former President wants to hear. Durant said, “The bottom line is I don’t think Joe Biden won the election.” What makes this stunning is how it directly contradicts where Durant was a few months ago when he said the 2020 election wasn’t even something he viewed as important.

2. Putin planning the end of the war with Ukraine

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly already declared that he will be ending the war with Ukraine by May 9 this year. May 9 is also the anniversary of when the country declared victory over the Nazis in World War II. There are large parades held on the date in Moscow annually.

• This was announced by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who said in a post, “According to the available information, among the personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, propaganda work is constantly being carried out, which imposes the idea that the war must be completed before the 9^th of May 2022.”

1. Joe Biden really made a mess of his trip to Europe

• Calling President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe a “foreign policy disaster” would be the kindest way to describe it. Biden went off-script during a made-for-TV speech, saying, “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

• The media and their Democrats (and foreign leaders) are really trying to clean this up by saying Biden’s administration is not pushing for regime change, which would absolutely mean war with Russia. Before his enormous gaffe, Biden spent the previous days declaring the United States would respond “in-kind” if Russia used chemical weapons and cleaning that up, and noted that the sanctions placed on Russia were deterrents that he never expected to work and cleaning that up.