{"id":1580072,"date":"2022-07-30T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580072"},"modified":"2022-07-30T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:40:41","slug":"biden-has-worst-job-approval-of-any-modern-president-in-their-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-worst-job-approval-of-any-modern-president-in-their-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Has Worst Job Approval of Any Modern President in Their Second Year"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-has-worst-job-approval-of-any-modern-president-in-their-second-year%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=1580072&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>I need to convince Ed to stop using that old photo of Biden with Jimmy Carter as a screencap for his posts about Biden\u2019s falling numbers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unfair to Carter at this point, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is POTUS a few points worse was at this stage of his presidency than Carter was, he\u2019s also a few points worse than you-know-who. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/395378\/biden-job-approval-dips-new-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gallup<\/a> started polling presidential approval in the 1950s, in fact, no one has ever rated more poorly in the summer of his second year than Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan was also struggling with a recession and high inflation in 1982 (although the latter was at least trending downward at this point) and he was still a few points better than Sleepy Joe is now.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, at a spry 71 years old, he was considerably younger and more vigorous than the current occupant of the office. Maybe his youthful vitality earned him the benefit of the doubt and a few extra points in polling.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup has Biden sitting at 38 percent approval today, the worst number of his term in their polling and the first time he\u2019s been below the political Mendoza line of 40 percent. Among independents it\u2019s 31 percent, also a new low. And he now enjoys the distinction of having the highest \u201cstrong disapproval\u201d rating among members of the other party of any recent president. The worst that the hyperpolarizing Trump ever did was 83 percent strong disapproval among Dems. The worst that Barack Obama ever did among Republicans was 75 percent. George W. Bush, who was despised by Democrats for the Iraq war, bottomed out at 81 percent strong disapproval. Biden, by comparison, is currently rocking an *87 percent* rating of strong disapproval among GOPers.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, more than three times as many Americans strongly disapprove of him (45 percent) than strongly approve (13 percent). How many people on either side saw \u201cless popular than Trump\u201d as his political legacy on Inauguration Day, two weeks after the insurrection?<\/p>\n<p>The irony of these terrible numbers appearing today is that the media is suddenly taking a second look at President Joe in the wake of his \u2014 or rather, Joe Manchin\u2019s \u2014 \u201cwin\u201d on the new Build Back Better bill. \u201cBiden is suddenly winning (just don\u2019t say the \u2018R\u2019 word),\u201d declares <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/biden-suddenly-winning-just-dont-151658653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFP<\/a>. \u201cWait, Is Biden a Better President Than People Thought?\u201d asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/07\/29\/is-biden-better-president-than-people-thought-00048654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Harris<\/a> at Politico. If you just ignore the last half a year, said Van Jones on CNN, Biden\u2019s actually had a pretty successful presidency:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CNN&#8217;s Van Jones on Biden: &#8220;If you just erase the past six months of nutty stuff \u2026 that\u2019s a successful presidency&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yvw1cBqJrK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/Yvw1cBqJrK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1553007450508378112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true that Biden has delivered on more big-ticket legislation than most expected. He got COVID relief, he got infrastructure, he got a gun bill, he got CHIPS, he may yet get a law protecting gay marriage, and soon he might have a bigger-than-anticipated version of Build Back Better if he can navigate Manchin and Sinema. But he also got grinding inflation thanks to COVID relief, which is hungrily devouring the wages of lower- and middle-class voters everywhere. And that\u2019s all that\u2019ll matter this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I wrote about voters possibly <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/07\/14\/are-dem-voters-decoupling-their-support-for-the-party-from-their-support-for-biden-n482828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cdecoupling\u201d<\/a> their support for Democratic congressional candidates from their disappointment in Biden. The president\u2019s approval numbers are ugly and have gotten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much uglier over the past three months<\/a>, but the trend for his party is \u2026 different. <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-political-environment-might-be-improving-for-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nate Silver<\/a> pointed out today that there\u2019s simply no denying that Democrats look stronger in congressional races, particularly Senate races, than they did at the start of June. On June 1 his model gave them a 40 percent chance of winning the Senate. Today it gives them a 55 percent chance. What gives?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s mostly a Roe backlash at work, Silver speculates, but there are other factors trending Dems\u2019 way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not clear how much the Jan. 6 hearings have changed public opinion, but they have highlighted an issue where the public is relatively sympathetic toward Democrats, with 79 percent of voters saying former President Donald Trump acted either unethically or illegally in a new CNN poll.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 \u2014 an issue that was something of a no-win for President Biden \u2014 is on the backburner for most voters. In the aforementioned Suffolk\/USA Today poll, so few voters mentioned COVID-19 as their most important issue that it wasn\u2019t broken out as one of the 25 issues respondents named. Cases remain high, but deaths are low compared to earlier stages of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the economic news hasn\u2019t been good for Democrats. Most voters think the economy is in a recession, even though the bureau that determines recessions in the U.S. hasn\u2019t declared one yet and may never do so. But at the same time, some highly visible indicators have improved: Gas prices are down and the stock market has been in a rebound over the past five to six weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The thoughtfully cautious expectation for the fall at this moment in time is that Republicans will still clean up in House races but battlegrounds where <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/allahpundit\/2022\/07\/29\/ugly-oz-trails-fetterman-in-pennsylvania-by-double-digits-n486090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Republican nominee is conspicuously weak<\/a> might yet end up in Democratic hands. The GOP might rue the day it nominated Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker if we end up with a surprise Supreme Court vacancy next year.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave you with this right track\/wrong track data from <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/right-direction-wrong-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Consult<\/a>. By comparison, these numbers were 40\/60 on the eve of the Democrats\u2019 blue wave in 2018. I wouldn\u2019t want to be a Dem running this year with this weight on my back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-486231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-29-at-3.20.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to convince Ed to stop using that old photo of Biden with Jimmy Carter as a screencap for his posts about Biden\u2019s falling numbers. It\u2019s unfair to Carter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Has Worst Job Approval of Any Modern President in Their Second Year","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Has Worst Job Approval of Any Modern President in Their Second Year","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580072","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=1580072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}