With nearly 90% believing crime will be an important midterm election issue, many Americans are repelled by President Joe Biden’s handling of the issue, once one of his bread-and-butter agenda items.
Twenty-eight years after former President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden crime bill, a majority rate Biden’s handling of crime and law enforcement issues as “poor,” and even more, 67%, rate it as “fair to poor.”
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 11% give the president an “excellent” rating versus the 51% that rate him “poor.”
The survey is one of several that show specific issues on which Biden is losing his grip among the public. He had already lost their faith on handling the economy and the war in Afghanistan.
All three are critical because voters see them as top election issues. On crime, Rasmussen said that 86% view it as an important consideration in the upcoming fall congressional midterm elections.
It is key to all voting groups, including Biden’s base. “More Republicans (72%) than Democrats (52%) or unaffiliated voters (49%) believe violent crime will be a ‘very important’ issue in this year’s congressional elections,” said the survey analysis.
