Joe Biden has the lowest approval rating of any president since World War II at this point of his presidency except for Jimmy Carter. Gallup. Biden's approval according to Gallup is 40.7% with his personal favorability rating at 41%. Biden is doing worse than both Trump and Obama at this time in their first terms. Biden is dramatically more popular among Democrats than Republicans with only 2% of Republicans approving of Biden, while 86% of Democrats approving. Biden is also doing poorly with Independents with only 38% approving. Kamala Harris has even worse approval with only 38% of voters approving of her.
My Comment:
More bad poling news for Joe Biden, Biden's approval is worse than any president besides Jimmy Carter, who clocked in at 30.7% for this time in his presidency. That's damning by faint praise because Carter is widely regarded as the worst president of the modern era and condemned his party to 12 years of Republican dominance at the White House (and would have been 20 if it wasn't for Ross Perot's independent run).
What strikes me is how partisan the divide is. I am not at all surprised that Biden is very unpopular among Republicans. Given his behavior I am guessing the 2% of Republicans that approve of Biden either accidently answered the question wrong, were lying to pollsters or the kind of "Republicans" that support the Lincoln Project. AKA Republicans in Name Only (RINO).
But the Democrats? 86% approval? I simply don't understand it. Is it really just partisan support? Support our guy no matter what? Even if they approve of the things Biden has done, which would be shocking to me, Ukraine alone should be enough to piss off every Democrat that was opposed to the Iraq War, but apparently not. And they have to see the higher prices at the grocery store, the foreign policy failures and the absolute mental and physical decline, but I guess none of that matters to them?
What is important is that the majority of Independents are sick of Biden as well. With only 38% approval Biden is underwater with a critical group that are absolutely necessary for him to win in 2024. How that number is 38% is beyond me as well.
The high approval ratings among Democrats might mean that rumors of a major non Biden candidate entering the race. Biden has given every indication he wants to run again and nobody else besides RFK Jr has entered the race (I'm not counting Marianne Williamson). If so that means Republicans have a very good chance of taking back the White House even with the voter fraud and media bias.
I don't think things will get better for Biden either. I feel like his indictments of Trump will backfire on him as it looks obvious to everyone that the only reason it is happening is because Biden knows he can't beat Trump. His scandals are becoming more obvious and harder to deny and his health has taken a nose-dive as well. Most of all, I feel like the economy and Ukraine are not going to go Biden's way. And that's assuming World War III doesn't break out and everything becomes irrelevant.
Could things turn around for Biden? It's possible. Foreign policy has been a non-issue in elections since 2008 and the economy could lurch along in it's current bad but not disastrous state. And it's possible that some kind of major terror attack or disaster could happen that could temporarily at least boost his approval rating, though I doubt he would handle it well. After all, Katrina killed Bush's approval rating and I can't imagine Biden handling a major disaster even half as competently as Bush.
Regardless, I am surprised that he is doing better than Carter. Economically things aren't quite as bad as they were under Carter but everything else is worse. And Carter was at least a kindly old gentleman who wasn't personally repulsive like Biden was. We will have to see if Biden manages to screw things up even worse than he already has...
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