New Poll Has Biden’s Approval Rating The Worst For A Sitting President In Decades

July 11, 2022 23,277


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Democrats nervous about the party’s chances during the November midterm elections now have another reason to be concerned: Their president is the most unpopular in decades.
According to a new survey, President Joe Biden has surpassed the previous two presidents — Barack Obama and Donald Trump — in slumping approval and has now tied Jimmy Carter’s anemic 29 percent at this point in his presidency.
Biden’s approval numbers have been sliding downward for nearly a year; they began tanking after his disastrous, chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
What’s more, the way Biden’s rating is tanking, he looks set to surpass the late Richard Nixon’s dismal figure the day he resigned in 1974 ahead of being impeached for Watergate.

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“While it’s just one poll, though from a liberal outfit, the latest Civiqs approval rating for Biden is 29%, with 58% disapproving, by far the worst poll yet for the president,” the Washington Examiner reports.




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10:09 AM · Jul 10, 2022

The outlet continues:
Biden’s sinking began in April 2021 and only saw a brief plateau in March 2022 before continuing to fall.
Notably, the survey said just 62% of Democrats approve of Biden, something to pay attention to as more liberals and liberal media outlets start to question the president’s competency and ability to win reelection.
The survey’s data tracks with a Rasmussen Reports survey released last last week that showed just 65% of Democratic voters approve of the liberal president. Rasmussen’s overall approval rating was higher, at 37%.
Also, RealClearPolitics has Biden’s approval at 38 percent, so the Civiqs survey, thus far, is an outlier.
But even the upper 30s is nothing to crow about.
Notably, Biden is also losing a key demographic: Former supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

Voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2016 but flipped to Biden in 2020 are now abandoning the current commander-in-chief in droves, the Washington Examiner reports separately:
A poll analyzing voters who supported former President Donald Trump in 2016 before casting a ballot for Biden in 2020 has found just 3 in 10 would back the incumbent again.

The poll, published by Republican public opinion research firm J.L. Partners, also found 1 in 5 of the same voters graded Biden as performing “very well” as president. Voters older than 65 were more critical of Biden, with 7% echoing the assessment.
J.L. Partners founder James Johnson, former British Prime Minister Theresa May’s chief pollster, predicts that so-called purple voters will be pivotal in November’s midterm elections and the next presidential cycle, estimating that approximately 4 million people are members of the group.
For example, the poll found more than 1 in 4 planning to vote Republican this fall, prompted by liberal positions on the removal of statues and monuments, the use of gender pronouns, race protests, and cancel culture. About 68% remained committed to Democrats.
The pollster went on to say Biden and Democrats are also hemorrhaging purple supporters over the disappointing handling of the economy and immigration policy, as well as their failure to live up to their promise to unite the country.


Johnson said that Dems retain an edge over the GOP in terms of the pandemic, the top concern among purple voters, and healthcare.
“For Biden, the poll is bleak,” Johnson told the Washington Examiner.
Also, amid record-high fuel prices and skyrocketing food costs, voters appear seat to punish the president over his border and immigration policies.
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administration could end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that immigration experts previously had credited with dramatic reductions in illegal immigration.


That means the high court effectively affirmed Biden’s ‘open-border’ policies, and that is very likely to further drive voter turnout even higher, especially in border states that are seeing the worst of the problems, political analysts said.
Once again, the Washington Examiner reported:
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey, for example, said that 73% consider immigration a critical election issue.
Two other questions Rasmussen asked also gave a strong indication of whom voters want to punish in the elections.

New Poll Has Biden’s Approval Rating The Worst For A Sitting President In Decades (conservativebrief.com)