Biden’s sinking feeling showing in new polls
How low can it go? President Biden’s approval rating can’t seem to pull out of a dive. Gallup has it stuck at 42%, and inflation is sure to drag that down as prices keep going up.
He started the year in the 50s (going as high as 57%), but it’s been a nosedive since.
“His latest rating suggests no improvement in his public support, as Democrats delayed passage of a pair of infrastructure bills due to internal disagreements on their size and scope,” Gallup reports.
Supply chain issues, inflation and worker shortages are holding any economic rebound back.
A divided Congress isn’t helping. Gallup reports 92% of Democrats approve and 6% disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while 4% of Republicans approve and 94% disapprove.
The Hill reports that Biden’s safe place — leftlurching CNN — didn’t help him much during a town hall appearance from Baltimore Thursday night. Just 1.2 million viewers tuned in — with 271,000 from the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic.
Fox News added, as expected when Biden goes off-script, that the White House was clarifying some of the president’s statements during the CNN session.
“We are not actively pursuing the use of the National Guard on a federal level,” an administration spokesman said, trying to take back Biden’s comment that he’d call up the Guard to help open supply chain bottlenecks.
As for defending Taiwan, the administration said any escalation is not in the works after Biden attempted to talk tough over China.
Even CNN was factchecking other Biden statements, including the comment that he has been to the Southern Border before.
“I’ve been there before, and I haven’t — I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down. But the — but the whole point of it is: I haven’t had a whole hell of lot of time to get down,” the president said during the town hall.
Multiple outlets say he drove near the border in 2008 on the way to a campaign event. CNN states Biden could be referring to that year “when he was on his way from an airport in the border city of El Paso, Texas, to a campaign rally in a New Mexico town that is located just under an hour from the border.”
Correcting his own town hall segment won’t help his approval ratings but may boost his disapproval percentage.