Poll results from Real Clear Politics, Gallup, Morning Consult/Politico and Quinnipiac show President Joe Biden’s approval rating has collapsed over the last few months.
Currently, the Real Clear Politics average has Biden’s job approval rating at 43.3%, which is almost a 10% drop from July. Gallup shows Biden's approval has dropped 13% since June, including 6% just this last month. Morning Consult/Politico revealed that since August Biden’s approval rating has dropped 4%, putting his net approval rating in that poll at a record low of 48%.
The latest Quinnipiac polling also showed Biden’s approval rating had dropped 4%, since its last polling three weeks prior, putting his approval at the lowest point it’s ever been in that poll.
Biden “received negative scores in the double digits on all but one key issue,” according to Quinnipiac’s polling. The one positive result came from a question asking survey recipients if Biden “cares about average Americans.” The data showed only 1% more said yes instead of no.
CNN’s exit polls from the 2020 election indicate Biden beat out incumbent Donald Trump among independents by 13 points. However, currently, an average of three polls taken in September that produced data about independent voters, shows only 39% of independents approve of Biden’s performance, while 52% of them disapprove, according to a Washington Post opinion writer.
Real Clear Politics shows former President Trump’s approval rating after his first year in office was 40.5%, which is 2.8% less than Biden’s current approval rating. This rating for Trump followed the controversial Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., which was attended by numerous self-described “alt-right” nationalists. Meanwhile, Biden is currently reeling from the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and surging border apprehensions that are reportedly up almost 500% year-over-year.
U.S. Senate election results over the last decade have often fallen in line with each states’ share of presidential votes, according to the Pew Research Center, making Biden’s approval rating a relevant aspect of Democrats’ hopes for the future.
“I think the frustration is at an all-time high,” said W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, “and Biden can’t go to Georgia or any other Black state in the South and say, ‘This is what we delivered in 2021’.”