Biden keeps sagging in polls
The hits just keep coming for President Biden in the polls.
The president’s approval rating — the gold standard for job performance for modern-day commanders in chief — has sunk to 43%, according to the latest Rasmussen poll out Friday.
That’s slightly worse than a Reuters/Ipsos poll that pegged the president at 44% approval rating. That, writes Reuters, is “the lowest level of his presidency” under their tracking system.
The news service adds the dismal results show “Americans appearing to be increasingly critical of (Biden’s) response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
The raking comes as Biden has hit his 240th day in office, a metric used to compare his tenure to his predecessors. And the tape shows he’s worse than his old boss, former President Barack Obama, at this point in his presidency.
He’s slightly better than former President Donald Trump, who was at 38.8% at 240 days, but behind both expresidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Quinnipiac University earlier this week showed that only 42% surveyed approve of Biden.
“If there ever was a honeymoon for President Biden, it is clearly over,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy told Newsweek. “This is, with few exceptions, a poll full of troubling negatives … from overall job approval, to foreign policy, to the economy.”
The continued stream of bad news comes as Biden struggles with the virus not wanting to quit, a crisis and the Southern Border, a drone strike that killed innocent Afghans during the botched pullout from Kabul, France angry over a nuclear submarine deal and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley trying to defend his dealings with China at the end of the Trump term.
Plus, noted Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw — who literally wrote the textbook almost every college economics student studies — wrote in The New York Times Friday that “Americans should be wary” of big government.
“The details of the ambitious $3.5 trillion social spending bill are still being discussed, so it is unclear what it will end up including. In many ways, it seems like a grab bag of initiatives assembled from the progressive wish list,” Mankiw writes.
Hard work, to sum up his essay, is what made America great — not handouts across the board. Biden’s $3.5 trillion “package is too big and too risky,” he writes. “The wiser course is to take more incremental steps rather than to try to remake the economy in one fell swoop.”