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President Joe Biden registered his lowest approval rating since entering the White House, according to a new poll.
As of Wednesday, just 39% of the 2,000 registered voters surveyed by Morning Consult said they approved of Biden, down a full 14 points from a poll conducted between June 4 and 7 last year. Fifty-eight percent currently disapprove of Biden’s performance as president.
Biden’s current polling perfectly mirrors former President Donald Trump’s approvals from June 2020, as the coronavirus raged and voters were forced to grapple with widespread protests and riots sparked by a series of police killings and exacerbated by pandemic-linked, economic hardship.
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At this point in his term in office, 45% of voters gave Trump positive marks as president, while 52% disapproved of his administration.
Morning Consult noted that “while Biden’s decline has not yet dragged down approval for most Democratic incumbents on the Senate side of the aisle,” historically, a president’s negative polling is directly linked to his party’s likelihood of holding on to congressional majorities in midterm elections.
Wednesday’s poll showed voters evenly split at 42% on whether they would vote for a generic Democrat or generic Republican in November, with 16% not yet having made up their minds. A Morning Consult poll conducted in September 2021 saw generic Republicans trailing Democrats by 4 points.
Biden’s poor polling is likely influenced by a number of factors, ranging from the pandemic to his policies concerning the southern border, but months worth of polling indicates that the economy remains the foremost important issue to midterm voters of both parties.
Prices across all commercial sectors have skyrocketed over the past year and a half, and experts believe that Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which poured nearly $2 trillion on top of the $3 trillion in emergency pandemic spending authorized by the Trump administration, is at least partially to blame for the historic inflation.
The White House, however, has adamantly defended Biden’s economic policies while claiming to recognize there is still “work that needs to be done” to lower prices for consumers.
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“We understand that people are feeling this. They are feeling the increase of prices, with food in particular right now, and gas. That is something that we understand,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Wednesday’s briefing. “What I’m trying to say to you is that the economy is in a better place than it has been historically, and so, we feel here, at this administration, and other experts as well, is that we feel that we are in a good position to take on inflation. We are in a good position to really start really working on lowering prices.”
