Biden’s Approval Rating Sliding To New Lows
President Biden’s relationship with American people is over.
Many Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance as approve, according to two new polls out Sunday.
This has been considered a steep decline after he spent his first half-year in the White House with high job ratings.
50 percent of Americans, approve of the way Biden is handling his job as president in the CBS News poll .
However, the same amount of Americans disapprove of Biden.
In the NBC News poll, Biden’s approval rating is 49 percent, compared to 48 percent disapproval.
Both polls show declines in views of Biden, whose presidency has been besieged by twin crises in recent weeks.
These include: a resurgence of the coronavirus domestically, and the rocky withdrawal of U.S. military personnel.
Biden’s approval rating slid 8 points in the CBS poll since July, and it’s down 4 points since the last NBC News survey, in
April.
Where Does Biden’s Approval Rate Currently lie ?
Despite the recent decline, Biden’s approval ratings remain higher than his predecessor’s: In four years.
Former President Donald Trump’s approval rating never hit 48 percent in the RealClearPolitics average.
Moreover his disapproval rating remained at 50 percent or greater from the two-month mark of his presidency until he left
office this past January.
But Biden’s slide is troubling news for Democrats, who have only narrow majorities in Congress that are increasingly
imperiled in next year’s midterm elections.
Despite a week of negative headlines about the faster-than-expected fall of the U.S.-supported Afghan government, Biden’s
weakening appears driven more by events closer to home, namely the sharp increase in Covid-19 cases after months of
optimism following the nation’s vaccination program.
Meanwhile, while few respondents think the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is going well, most Americans still support
bringing troops home. In the CBS News survey, 63 percent approve of the U.S. withdrawing troops, while only 37 percent
disapprove.
The CBS News poll was conducted online by YouGov from Aug. 18-20, surveying 2,142 adults. The margin of error is plus or
minus 2.3 percentage points.
The NBC News poll was conducted Aug. 14-17 by telephone, surveying 1,000 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus
3.1 percentage points.