According to a recent poll, about 60% of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s job performance, the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history and a concerning indicator for his fellow Democrats as we get closer to the fall legislative elections.
In the most recent Gallup poll, which was based on surveys conducted from July 5-26 and released on Friday, the Democratic Party’s approval rating hit a new low of 38%.
59 percent of respondents, a record number, disapproved of Biden’s performance as president.
Gallup reports that during his first six quarters in the oval office, the average approval rating was a historic low of 40% — lower than the 42 percent recorded by Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump, who is considering a second run for the presidency after losing to Biden in 2020.
47 percent of people approved of Barack Obama at the same point in his administration. Ronald Reagan, who struggled with a recession early in his administration, had a 44 percent popularity rating, whereas Bill Clinton had a 46 percent approval rating.
According to the data, Biden’s honeymoon time came to an end when his popularity rating dipped to 50% in the midst of a spike in US coronavirus infections last year.
As the party in power during a time when Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, Democrats are hoping that reaction against the Supreme Court’s recent conservative judgments on abortion, gun control, and environmental protection would help mitigate the challenges they face.
The fact that Biden’s opponents genuinely despise him and respondents’ support for him is more cool-blooded than emotional presents problems for the president on an equal footing.
13 percent of Americans highly approve of Biden’s performance, while 45 percent of Americans strongly disagree.
A new low for Biden is only 31% of registered independents or unaffiliated voters who support him.
Biden had the lowest approval rating for a president among Republicans in this political era, receiving only 87 percent of their votes.
The margin of error for the 1,013 Americans surveyed by Gallup from July 5 to July 26 is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
