With the help of Democrats bailing out his sinking approval ratings, President Joe Biden has started to recover just in time to begin a national 2022 election trip.
Rasmussen Reports, the sole pollster still conducting daily presidential approval ratings, said today that Biden’s average has moved up to 47% approval, the best the president has seen since September of last year. Some 52% said they disapprove of Biden.
Just a month ago, his approval rating was an all-time low of 36%, so the turnaround has been significant and swift.
Rasmussen did not suggest a reason for the turnaround, though the numbers showed strong support from Democrats for the president. In its analysis, 78% of Democrats approved of Biden, and more believe the country is on the right track, by a 49%-42% margin.
Fellow pollster John Zogby, in our weekly Biden Report Card, suggested that a focus on Biden’s agenda last week and the troubles of his predecessor helped.
Zogby reasoned that passage of even a watered-down spending and tax bill, signed into law last week by the president, helped to buoy Biden. Plus, he added, former President Donald Trump’s string of negative headlines drew attention away from Biden, who spent the last week on vacation.
“The term ‘Trump fatigue’ has entered the lexicon of new phrases in the wind. Traditionally, August has been cruel to Democratic presidents and nominees, but not so far for the incumbent. Democrats have appeared to transcend talk about Biden, while Republicans can’t get the orange-headed monkey off their backs,” Zogby said in his Biden analysis.
