President Joe Biden’s latest approval rating hit a new low of just 43% amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, according to a new NPR poll.
That figure is a 6% drop from a July poll conducted by NPR, which was previously the lowest approval rating Biden received since taking office.
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The downward spike can primarily be attributed to independents, with only 36% approving of the Biden administration, according to the recent August poll.
Republican approval dropped slightly from July, from 6% to 5%, and Democrat approval dropped from 90% to 85%, according to the poll.
On the specific issue of the Afghanistan withdrawal, 61% of respondents disapproved of Biden’s performance, with 71% of independents specifically in concurrence.
Roughly 71% of respondents said the war in Afghanistan was a failure, with 38% saying the United States should have only partially withdrawn from the country. Another 37% said the U.S. should have withdrawn completely, and 10% said no troops should have been withdrawn.
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The margin of error for the NPR poll was 3.8 percentage points for the full sample, with the margins of error for the subsets of Democrats, Republicans, and independents being wider.
The Biden administration executed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of war in the country.
The Pentagon admitted a number of Americans in the “very low hundreds” were left behind after the withdrawal.
