The RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight presidential approval trackers both say the same thing: President Joe Biden has never been more unpopular with voters than he is right now, and he is growing more unpopular every day.
Asked to explain why Biden is so unpopular on Meet the Press today, Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher noted that much of the slide in Biden’s approval has come from young Democrats who “took to the streets and marched a year ago” and aren’t interested in “roads and bridges.”
“They were marching for justice and racial equality. So we have to act on that.”
Is that where Biden’s support is slipping, though? From Democrats who believe we haven’t done enough about “racial equality”?
According to ABC News, Biden’s approval rating has fallen furthest on three key issues: “gun violence” (39%), Afghanistan (34%), and “the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border” (31%).
While Biden still receives high marks from Democrats on climate change (78%) and the economy (86%), his approval among Democrats has fallen steeply on all the issues named above. Only 64% of Democrats approve of Biden’s handling of gun violence, just 62% approve on Afghanistan, and barely half (54%) approve of his handling of immigration.
Biden’s numbers on each of these key issues have fallen even further among independents.
Looking forward, Belcher went on to claim that everything in Biden’s spending plan “is very popular with purple America.”
Again, Belcher is just wrong.
