A majority of Iowans disapprove of Joe Biden’s job performance as president, according to the new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.
Fewer than one-third of Iowans, just 31%, approve of Biden’s job performance, while 62% disapprove and 7% said they were unsure.
The poll marks a 12-percentage-point drop in approval for Biden since June, the last time it surveyed the president’s job performance.
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While the partisan breakdown of the poll shows that the vast majority of Republicans disapprove of the president’s job performance and a majority of Democrats approve, a majority of political independents, 62%, also disapprove, while 29% approve.
The Des Moines Register noted that Biden’s job approval rating is currently lower than former President Donald Trump’s “worst showing in the Iowa Poll.” The Iowa Poll recorded Trump’s worst approval rating in December 2017, when 60% of Iowans said they disapproved of his job performance.
Pollster J. Ann Selzer told the Des Moines Register, “This is a bad poll for Joe Biden, and it’s playing out in everything that he touches right now.”
Iowa has shifted right politically over the last decade: from 1992 to 2012, Iowa voters in presidential elections often mirrored national results. But in 2016, Trump won Iowa by almost 10 percentage points, outperforming the national margin, in which he trailed Hilary Clinton in the popular vote despite winning the Electoral College.
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As a candidate, Biden never had a strong foothold in Iowa. He finished fourth in the state’s 2020 Democratic caucuses, only later picking up steam after a victory in South Carolina and going on to win the Democratic nomination for president.
In the November 2020 election, Trump carried the state again, and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst easily won reelection in what had been seen as a close race.
Republicans currently hold large majorities in both chambers of Iowa’s Legislature as well.
