US President Joe Biden responds to the Conference of the House of Representatives for Democrats in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 11, 2022.
Jonathan Ernst Reuters
President Joe Biden’s approval rating for work continues to fall in his second year in the White House, with only 40 percent of Americans approving of the work he does, according to a new NBC News poll.
This is the lowest rating Biden has seen during his presidency.
The drop in Biden’s job approval by 3 percentage points since January comes as the majority of Americans continue to say that the United States is moving in the wrong direction, according to the survey.
A total of 71% of respondents said they thought the country was “on the wrong track”. This is one percentage point less than the share of respondents who gave this answer in the same survey conducted in mid-January.
The latest grim figures for Biden come when he led a Western coalition supporting Ukraine’s resistance to its invasion of Russia, Americans deal with inflation that has not been seen since the 1980s, and when the United States enters its third full year. from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“What this poll says is that President Biden and Democrats are heading for a disastrous election,” Republican sociologist Bill McInterf of Public Opinions Strategy, who conducted the poll with Democrat Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, told NBC News.
The poll surveyed 1,000 adults, 790 of whom were registered voters, in four days last week. There is a margin of error of 3.1% among all respondents.
The incumbent political party generally sees a loss of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate by-elections. All 435 seats in the House are set for election in November 2022, while 35 seats in the Senate are set.
Democrats have a majority of 12 votes in the House.
Democrats control the Senate only because of an unjustified vote by Vice President Kamala Harris, which could tip the scales in their favor when all 48 Democrats and the two independent senators who meet with them vote as a bloc against the 50 GOP senators.
Biden saw his public approval fall sharply after taking office in January 2021, after defeating then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
Recently, Trump urged that he fight for the Republican nomination for president again in 2024.
Biden said Thursday that he would be “very lucky” to have Trump as an opponent in the next election, a mockery that could be justified by the relatively high negative assessments of Trump’s approval.
But the current president of the Democrats finds himself in a hole in public approval that continues to grow.
In a March 2021 poll by NBC News, three months after his presidency, Biden had a 53% approval rating of all Americans and 51% of registered voters. The same poll found that 39% of all Americans and 43% of registered voters disapprove of his performance.
In the new poll, only 41% of registered voters approved of Biden’s performance, and 54% disapproved.
Only 16% of registered voters said they strongly approved of Biden’s work, while 43% strongly disapproved.
When Biden took office in January 2021, only 21% of Americans thought the United States was moving in the right direction, and 73% said they were on the wrong track.
Three months later, the numbers have changed significantly, with 36% saying the country is moving in the right direction and 56% saying the opposite.
But then Americans became more pessimistic, with only 22 percent saying the United States was moving in the right direction, a percentage that hasn’t changed since the October NBC poll.
When Americans were asked how they personally felt about Biden, a total of 37% said they had very positive or somewhat positive feelings. A total of 46% say they have very negative or somewhat negative feelings about him.
When people were asked about Trump, a total of 36% said they had very positive or somewhat positive feelings about him. A total of 50% had very negative or somewhat negative feelings towards the former president.