Biden is 'seething' that his poll numbers are worse that Donald Trump's; ABC News calls Biden 'a serious drag' on Dems
President Joe Biden is reportedly "seething" that his poll numbers are worse than those of former President Donald Trump.
What are the details?
Politico disclosed in a new report late Sunday that tensions are running high in the West Wing — and Biden is the "greatest source" of frustrations.
According to the report, which painted the Biden administration as the passive recipient of countless crises, Biden is very aware of his embarrassing poll numbers.
The president has expressed exasperation that his poll numbers have sunk below those of Donald Trump, whom Biden routinely refers to in private as “the worst president” in history and an existential threat to the nation’s democracy.
The concern among those in the White House is that Biden is becoming Jimmy Carter 2.0, i.e., a one-term president who was unable to overcome serious blunders.
Tensions are so high that Biden recently "erupted" because staffers did not keep him informed about the seriousness of the baby formula shortage, Politico reported. Other problems sending the West Wing into chaos — in addition to sky-high inflation and record-high gas prices — include the revolving door of staffers and the tight control that staffers exercise over the president.
The White House, however, is denying Politico's depiction of the West Wing.
"This depiction of the White House is simply divorced from reality," said spokesman Andrew Bates.
How bad is Biden's polling?
Bad. Very bad.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Biden's job approval is more than 13 points underwater. His job approval rating ranges from the high-30s to low-40s, while his job disapproval rating ranges from the low-50s to high-50s.
The negative trajectory began after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and it has only deteriorated since.
Biden's low approval also spells bad news for Democrats hoping to retain control of Congress after the 2022 midterm elections. On Sunday, ABC News explained the grim situation for Democrats.
"Biden is a serious drag on Democratic candidates nationwide," said ABC News' Rick Klein, "he is badly underwater on all of the top issues."
\u201cABC POLL: "Biden is a serious drag on Democratic candidates nationwide ... he is badly underwater on all of the top issues."\u201d— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1654440305
'What this poll says is that President Biden and Democrats are headed for a catastrophic election': Biden earns abysmal 40% job approval in NBC News poll
A recent NBC News poll of adults indicates that President Joe Biden's job approval rating is deeply underwater, with 55% who disapprove of his presidency compared to just 40% who approve of it. While 42% strongly disapprove of the job Biden is doing, 16% strongly approve, 13% somewhat disapprove, and 24% somewhat approve.
A whopping 63% disapprove of how the Biden is dealing with the economy, while only 33% approve.
And while 52% disapprove of how Biden is handling the Russia-Ukraine war, only 41% approve. The poll also found a dearth of confidence in the president on this issue: While 44% expressed having "Very little confidence" in the president's ability to react to the conflict and manage the crisis, 27% had "Just some confidence," 16% had "Quite a bit of confidence," and 12% had "a great deal of confidence."
Earlier this month, Biden issued an executive order to prohibit the importation of crude oil and other products into the U.S. from Russia. The poll found that 79% agree with the move by the U.S. to block Russian oil, even if it produces higher fuel prices.
The poll, which was carried out March 18 to 22, does not bode well for Democrats heading into the 2022 midterm elections as the party aims to maintain control in Congress.
Among registered voters, 46% would prefer for the election to result in a GOP-controlled Congress, while 44% would prefer for the election to result in a Democrat-controlled legislature, a close split which falls within the margin of error.
"What this poll says is that President Biden and Democrats are headed for a catastrophic election," Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinions Strategy said, according to NBC News — the outlet noted that McInturff carried out the survey along with Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.
President Biden has for some time been facing poor approval ratings across a variety of polls.
Biden approval sinks to record low in NPR poll taken before Russia invaded Ukraine
A majority of Americans believe President Joe Biden's first year in office was a "failure," according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Support for the president has dropped to the lowest level recorded by the survey, with Biden holding just a 39% overall approval rating with U.S. adults. His overall approval rating is slightly better with registered voters, though still at a dismal 40%. The president's overall disapproval rating is at 55% with both groups.
A 56% majority of both U.S. adults and registered voters rate the president's first year in office as a failure, the survey found. Only 39% said it was a success.
These crushing poll numbers come as Americans are expressing widespread dissatisfaction with how Biden is performing on the economy, the pandemic, and with foreign policy. Most survey respondents, 54%, said Biden is not fulfilling his campaign promises, and 52% said he has done more to divide the country than unite it, even though uniting the country was a central theme of Biden's 2020 campaign for the White House.
On the issues, Biden receives just 36% approval for his handling of the economy and 47% for his handling of the pandemic. A plurality of 37% of registered voters say inflation should be the top priority for Biden right now, as consumer prices have increased at the largest rate in 40 years over the past year.
Other important issues rank far behind inflation, with the pandemic being the top concern for 12% of registered voters, voting laws for another 12%, and foreign policy and violent crime each for 10%.
Foreign policy is a rising concern for Americans with the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Importantly, this poll was conducted between Feb. 15 and Feb. 21, before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. When this poll was taken, 50% of U.S. adults said they disapproved of how Biden was handling the situation, while only 34% approved.
A pitiful 30% of respondents said they think the U.S. is headed in the right direction.
"These are sort of rock-bottom numbers," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, in a statement. "It's about as low as you're going to see him."
NPR identified three key groups that Biden is struggling with that explain his disastrous poll numbers: Independents, suburban voters, and the Democratic base.
Only 29% of self-identified independents approve of Biden's job performance. An astonishing 64% of independents disapprove of Biden, more than double the percentage that approve. It's a far-cry from the support Biden held in 2020, when he won the presidency with majority support from independents.
As for suburban voters, just 38% approve of the president, a decrease of 11 percentage points from December. Biden has seen a double-digit decrease in support from suburban women over the past two months alone, down to 45% from 57%.
The president is also suffering from a lack of intense support from Democrats. Only 14% of U.S. adults strongly approve of Biden's performance, a worse rating than President Donald Trump had at any time during his presidency, according to NPR.
Credit Biden's souring approval with his supporters to the 50-50 U.S. Senate. Major initiatives like the Build Back Better social spending package and a federal overhaul of U.S. elections have been stymied by lack of support in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to overcome a filibuster.
The only major pieces of legislation advanced under Biden's tenure have been a coronavirus relief package, called the American Rescue Plan, and a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Those achievements are decidedly not enough to make up for Biden's failure to "shut down" the coronavirus pandemic, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and ongoing supply chain issues and rising prices.
CNN's latest poll has truly awful numbers for Biden
Astounding new poll numbers for President Joe Biden show just how badly Americans think he's performing as president, with nearly six in 10 survey respondents saying there's absolutely nothing he's done that they approve of.
Only 41% of Americans think Biden is doing a good job, according to a CNN poll released Thursday. Most, a whopping 58%, say they disapprove of how he is handling the job.
The U.S. adults who are in Biden's corner are almost all Democrats. The president still holds an 83% approval rating among members of his own party, although that dropped from 94% last summer. Just 36% of self-identified independents said they approve of Biden's performance, and only 9% of Republicans approved. More Americans strongly disapprove of how Biden is leading the nation, 41%, than strongly approve, 15%.
According to CNN, Biden's numbers have worsened as the network's polling has become more evenly representative of the two major parties, rather than tilting toward Democrats as it has in the past.
Perhaps the most stunning number from the poll was that 56% of survey respondents who disapproved of Biden's overall performance could not name a single thing he's done that they approve of. Rather than say anything nice about Biden's job as president, they chose to say nothing at all.
CNN: 56% of Americans say "NOTHING" when asked what President Biden has done that they approve of.\n\n"Look at how bad these numbers are."pic.twitter.com/8CUbwT1xme— RNC Research (@RNC Research) 1644513383
"Look at how bad these numbers are," CNN's John King said Thursday, discussing the survey.
He observed that Biden's achievements with the coronavirus relief bill last year and the bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure package are not "sinking in" with the American public, which continues to disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy and the coronavirus pandemic.
"That is a stunning number of the failure to communicate the legitimate successes of the Biden administration," King said.
Whatever successes Biden may have had, and his opponents would contend there haven't been many; rising inflation and the president's failure to "shut down" the coronavirus as promised are leading causes for his poor standing with the American people. Biden's approval rating on the economy fell by eight points to 37% since early December, while his ratings for handling the pandemic decreased nine points to 45%.
Overall, 57% of Americans said the first year of the Biden administration has been more of a failure than a success, and there appears to be no universally popular way for the president to improve his standing because Americans are sharply divided.
On the question of how best to deal with the pandemic, 51% of survey respondents said that "it's time to learn to live with the virus," while 48% said that "stopping the spread of the virus must continue to be the highest priority."
Those numbers are split by party lines: Almost three-quarters of Democrats, 73%, said that stopping the virus needs to be priority number one, while 72% of Republicans and 54% of independents are ready to live with the virus.
"64% of people with children under the age of 18 said it was time to learn to live with the virus, while 54% of those without young children said stopping the spread must continue to be the highest priority."\n\nKarens and AWFLs are the Dem base. Not good.https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/cnn-poll-biden-approval/index.html\u00a0\u2026— Varad Mehta (@Varad Mehta) 1644516525
What does unite three quarters of Americans are feelings of pandemic "burn out," with 60% describing themselves as angry, 58% saying they are worried, and nearly half, 49%, saying they were confused.
CNN's poll was conducted by SSRS between Jan. 10 and Feb. 6 among a random national sample of 1,527 adults initially reached by mail.
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