A'stan & COV wallop Joe across key states
More Americans in six critical swing states disapprove of the job President Biden is doing than approve, as his administration tries to recover from the bungled pullout in Afghanistan and a resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the country, according to a new poll.
The president’s approval ratings in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas lag behind his disapproval ratings by 10 points or more, a Civiqs survey shows.
In the 2020 presidential election, Biden won three of those states by narrow margins — Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania — and former President Donald Trump won the other three by slightly higher margins.
Texas, which Trump won by more than 5 percentage points, has the largest gap in Biden’s ratings, at 26 percent.
Fifty-nine percent of Lone Star State residents disapprove of Biden and only 33 percent approve.
The next-highest gap was in Georgia, at 15 percent — 38 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove.
Biden won Georgia by .2 percent following three recounts.
The difference was 13 percent in Florida and North Carolina, respectively, both states that Biden lost.
In Florida and North Carolina, 40 percent approve and 53 percent say they disapprove of the president’s job performance.
In highly contested Pennsylvania — which declared Biden the winner three weeks after Election Day following recounts — and in Arizona, the gaps were the smallest, at 10 percent. Fortyone percent of voters in the Keystone and Grand Canyon states approve of Biden, and 51 percent disapprove.
Biden has a net positive approval rating in only 13 of the 50 states.
Broken down by party, Democrats approve of Biden by 84 percent to 6 percent, but Republicans disapprove of him by 95 percent to 3 percent.
Among independents, 59 percent disapprove and 30 percent approve.
Whites disapprove of Biden by 60 percent to 33 percent, but the president has strong support among African Americans (76 to 12 percent) and Hispanics (54 to 35 percent).
The Civiqs poll is the latest to show Biden’s numbers going the wrong way.
A survey by Marist, NPR and “PBS NewsHour” found that Biden’s approval rating plunged by 10 percentage points between May and September, from 53 percent to 43 percent.
His approval ratings hovered in the high 50s or low 60s after he took office, before the mounting crises.
A poll on a possible rematch between Biden and Trump, meanwhile, showed that the former president would eke out a victory.
The Emerson College survey released on Friday found that 47 percent of voters would pick Trump while 46 percent would choose Biden.
Thirty-nine percent of Democrats said they would look for a candidate other than Biden in 2024, while 67 percent of Republicans would stick with Trump.