{"id":1220321,"date":"2022-01-17T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220321"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:38:54","slug":"democrats-in-decline-poll-finds-14-point-swing-in-party-id-since-biden-took-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-in-decline-poll-finds-14-point-swing-in-party-id-since-biden-took-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats in Decline: Poll Finds 14 Point Swing in Party ID Since Biden Took Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-in-decline-poll-finds-14-point-swing-in-party-id-since-biden-took-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s first year in office has been a disaster of epic proportions. Afghanistan and the southern border? Disaster. His handling of the COVID-19 pandemic after promising to &#8220;shut down&#8221; the virus and hiring Ron &#8220;Ebola Czar&#8221; Klain as his chief of staff? Disaster. His decrepit disposition and the fact that Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from power? You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The American people have been paying attention, and they are justifiably appalled. A&nbsp;recent Gallup <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/388781\/political-party-preferences-shifted-greatly-during-2021.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a> found a &#8220;dramatic&#8221; 14-point shift in party identification over the past year, which is terrible news for Democrats heading into the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>When Biden took office, 49 percent of Americans told Gallup they identified as (or leaned) Democrat, compared to just 40 percent who considered themselves (or leaned) Republican. Since then, the Democratic Party&#8217;s 9-point advantage has turned into a 5-point deficit, with just 42 percent of Americans identifying as Democrat and 47 percent identifying as Republican. That&#8217;s not great.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1556268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu.png 1440w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu-1400x817.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/poll-gallu-736x429.png 736w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s approval rating has suffered a similar decline, from 56 percent in the days following his inauguration to just 42 percent in recent weeks, according to the <em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average<\/a>. A Quinnipiac <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/biden-trump-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> published last week measured Biden&#8217;s approval rating at just 33 percent, which matched the polling firm&#8217;s lowest recorded approval rating for former president Donald Trump in the days after the storming of the Capitol building in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more than 440,000 Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/biden-covid-death-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have died<\/a> from COVID-19 on Biden&#8217;s watch, which means the virus he promised to &#8220;shut down&#8221; has now killed about 33,000 more Americans than it did in the final year of Trump&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kamala-harris-deep-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH: Veep Thoughts with Kamala Harris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s first year in office has been a disaster of epic proportions. Afghanistan and the southern border? Disaster. His handling of the COVID-19 pandemic after promising to &#8220;shut &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}