US President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell to 36% this week to tie the lowest rating of his 19 months in the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday finds.
The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance.
- Biden’s approval rating has been below 50% since August 2021 and has hovered around its record-low since first hitting it in May, raising alarms his Democratic Party is on track to lose control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm election. Biden’s rating fell three percentage points from 39% a week earlier.
Biden’s popularity has suffered from a surge in inflation, which rose to a 40-year high in June at 9.1%, the poll found.
Biden’s approval rating within his own party fell to 69% this week from 74% a week earlier. Only 11% of Republicans approve of his performance in office.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll comes a day after a CNN poll found that Biden’s approval rating sits at 38%, with the low mark largely attributable to softening approval among Democrats.
- The poll found that 57 percent of Democrats believe Biden has the right priorities, compared to 75 percent who felt that way in a CNN poll last fall.
Source: Arutz Sheva