President Biden’s job approval rating has fallen the most since the start of his term than any other president since World War II.
A new Gallup poll released Friday, polling Americans between Oct. 1-19 shows Biden’s approval rating plunged from 56% in Q1 to 44.7% in Q3, a whopping 11.3 percentage points that any president hasn’t seen in over 75 years.
“Biden began his term with relatively solid approval ratings, ranging between 54% and 57% from January through June. His approval dropped to 50% in July and 49% in August as coronavirus infections surged in the U.S. The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August, which included the deaths of more than a dozen U.S. military personnel in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport, was likely the reason Biden’s September job approval rating fell further to 43%,” Gallup said.
Biden also faces an increasing disillusionment among Americans that he can’t fix the border crisis, snarled supply chains, high gas prices, soaring inflation, consumer goods shortages, and the coronavirus pandemic, among a whole list of other things.
His ratings suggest no improvement in Democrat support, declining support among Independents, and only 4% of Republicans polled approve of the job he’s done – that figure is likely to go to zero if things don’t turn around for the president.
While Democrats are desperately trying to salvage their $3.5 trillion Build Back Better infrastructure plan, Americans are increasingly becoming confused about what exactly that means and how that will affect them.
Republicans have requested the president to fix broken supply chain before more social spending. Souring support suggests Democrats could be on track to lose big in next year’s midterms.