You would think that, at some point, President Joe Biden’s poll numbers couldn’t get any worse. So far, you would be wrong.
An NBC News poll found that Biden is now at 40% approval, the lowest level of his presidency, with 55% of people disapproving of his job performance. His support from women has dropped from 51% to 44%, and his support among Latinos dropped from 48% to 39%. On the issues, Biden is 30 points underwater on his handling of the economy, the most important issue according to poll respondents. Biden also gets the most blame for inflation.
Biden, who ran as a competent statesman with decades of foreign policy experience, had just 42% approval on foreign policy, with 51% disapproving. With Biden stumbling his way through speech after speech about Ukraine and Russia, 71% of people have “very little” or “just some” confidence in his response to the war, including 43% of Democrats.
Meanwhile, the NBC News poll has people favoring a Republican-controlled Congress to Democratic control 46%-44%. While that seems unimpressive, it’s the first time NBC had the GOP leading since 2014, when Republicans added 13 seats to their House majority and flipped nine Senate seats to take full control of Congress.
The Public Policy Institute of California illustrates just how poorly Biden is faring in its own poll. Biden is underwater in California, with 46% approval to 51% disapproval. Even the liberal bastion of California recognizes what a disaster the Biden presidency has been, even if the state will still back him if he runs in 2024 (at the ripe old age of 81).
Biden’s presidency is in free fall, and he is still nowhere near the ground. He was never the competent, unifying force that he and his staff claimed he was during the campaign. Even if expectations were low, Biden has somehow failed to meet them. It would be easy to say that it can’t get much worse for him now, but there is no indication that Biden can get this train back on the tracks.
