Call this some kind of comedy gold that it came from a CNN poll, of all places, the Biden administration’s biggest and most ardent cheerleader. The truth hurts, and the truth is they stumbled on a glimpse of reality happening around the country as voters struggle with buyer’s remorse now that the return period has long expired.
It’s all bad news all the time in this poll, with Biden’s numbers tanking on every issue, and fewer voters identifying as “Democrat” and in any previous CNN poll done recently:
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with most of that group saying there’s literally nothing Biden has done since taking office that they approve of. The finding, from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in January and February, highlights the entrenched politics driving the nation at the start of the midterm year, with little agreement across party lines on priorities for the government or how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
The President’s ratings have fallen across the board, the survey found. Just 41% approved of the way he’s handling his job while 58% disapproved, a significant drop from his approval numbers in CNN polling last year. Just 36% of independents and 9% of Republicans approved. Although his approval rating still stood at 83% among Democrats, that was down from 94% late last summer. Biden also continues to have more strong detractors than he does fervent supporters: 41% of Americans disapproved strongly of his performance as President versus 15% who strongly approved. Some of the shift in Biden’s numbers comes from a change in Americans’ partisan tilt: Republicans and Democrats were about at parity in the new poll, with fewer identifying as Democrats than in other recent CNN polling.
That’s gotta sting an administration struggling to stay above water on anything. There isn’t any part of the political landscape where Biden is meeting or exceeding the expectations of voters. They say it’s important to be good at something even if you can’t be good at everything. Biden, so far, seems to be good at nothing, and voters are giving him high marks for it.
The numbers on paper are gruesome, but watch CNN’s on-air analysis of just how bad Biden’s doing right now:
CNN: 56% of Americans say "NOTHING" when asked what President Biden has done that they approve of.
"Look at how bad these numbers are." pic.twitter.com/8CUbwT1xme
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 10, 2022
The sheer majority saying there isn’t one thing they can think of that Biden has done that they approve of is mindboggling. He has literally bungled every major hurdle and crisis his presidency has encountered. The Afghanistan failure was a self-own of chaos and miscalculation from the minute the evacuation order was given.
The economy has limped along while businesses struggled to cope with Biden’s erroneous and unconditional vaccine mandates which caused chaos during the holiday buying season.
Inflation is out of control with few signs of slowing down.
The supply chain crisis continues to worsen, and the southern border is more porous than Nancy Pelosi’s ethics when it comes to banning congressional stock trading.
The farce in the clip above is John King lamenting how the Biden administration hasn’t done a good job messaging on its successes. What successes, John? Where are these successes? Are they locked away in Biden’s Delaware basement? If you have to constantly retool messaging and convince people you’re successful, you’re probably not successful.
Hopefully, CNN ran a trigger warning before airing this segment since the average viewer may be shocked to learn their Command in Chief isn’t doing as well as expected.
Driven by a gas station in the last two weeks? The price has gone up anywhere from ten to twenty cents in just a few short days.
