Democrats suffered a devastating loss that completely changed 2024
Joe Biden and the Left want nothing more than to stay in power. But their worst nightmare just came true.
Now Democrats have suffered a devastating loss that completely changed 2024.
According to a new national public opinion poll, only one-third of Americans approve of President Biden’s performance in the White House.
The president stands at 34% approval in a Monmouth University poll released on Monday, with 61% giving Biden a thumbs down on his job performance.
Since Biden took over the White House over three years ago, the president’s approval rating has been at an all-time low in Monmouth polls.
The president received particularly low grades from respondents in the survey for his handling of immigration (26%) and inflation (28%).
“The Biden administration keeps touting their infrastructure investments and a host of positive economic indicators. Those data points may be factual, but most Americans are still smarting from higher prices caused by post-pandemic inflation. This seems to be what’s driving public opinion,” Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, highlighted.
“There is political danger in pushing a message that basically tells people their take on their own situation is wrong.”
Murray spotlighted that “there is certainly an element of partisanship in how people frame their own financial situation, which is based in part on who occupies the White House. But even a good chunk of Biden’s Democratic base wish he’d start paying more attention to their top priorities than he is now.”
The approval rate is a major indicator of a president’s effectiveness, clout, and popularity, and it is a carefully followed metric, particularly when an incumbent pursues a second term in office.
The Monmouth poll comes just two weeks after the president had 37% approval in a Wall Street Journal poll, an all-time low.
However, according to a new Fox News national poll issued on Sunday, Biden’s approval rating is 43%.
During his first six months in the White House, Biden’s approval rating stayed in the low to mid 50s.
However, the president’s popularity began to dwindle in August 2021, following Biden’s widely panned handling of the tumultuous U.S. pullout from Afghanistan and a spike in COVID-19 cases that summer, primarily among the unvaccinated.
The decline in the president’s approval was also exacerbated by increasing inflation – which began in the summer of 2021 and continues to be a major financial concern for Americans – and a surge of migrants attempting to get into the United States along the southern border with Mexico.
Biden is considerably behind his three most recent two-term predecessors, former Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, who all successfully ran for re-election at this time in their presidencies.
Former President Trump, who was beaten by Biden in the 2020 election, was the only previous president with approval ratings almost as low as Biden’s current figures.
Biden used to have an advantage over Trump in 2024 rematch polls, but Trump began to have an advantage against his replacement in the White House in most polls starting in October.
On Sunday, as Biden was leaving his re-election campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, reporters questioned the president why he was trailing Trump in the latest polls.
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