Just two states, Vermont and Hawaii, give President Biden a positive approval rating. The rest, including left-wing bastions like New York, California, Maryland, and Massachusetts, all give him negative numbers when it comes to presidential job approval according to the latest numbers from Civiqs.
The Civiqs polling firm is unique in that it constantly surveys, on a rolling basis, thousands of respondents in all fifty states, then aggregates and organizes the data to produce national numbers and state-by-state numbers. Most polling firms may sample a few thousand people at most, but Civiqs has a respondent base of over 200,000 survey takers for numbers dating back to January.
In short, these numbers represent a very wide lens into how voters around the country are feeling about Biden’s presidency, and the answer continues to be very dour:
Thirty-three percent is a new low for Biden in the Civiqs poll. Perhaps, then, it’s no wonder why we see Biden suddenly becoming angry with his White House advisors over the current state of his presidency.
He’s clearly been told a lot of garbage about things like inflation being “transitory” or how his ethanol fuel subsidies will be the answer to rising gas prices. None of the so-called solutions peddled by the White House have amounted to any meaningful progress for consumers.
This fact manifested itself recently with reports that after a trip to Iowa in April, Biden was angry with advisors who may have oversold the benefits of ethanol in driving down prices at the gas pump:
President Biden seemed upbeat when he visited an Iowa biofuels plant in April to talk about bringing down gas prices, standing before a large tractor as he declared that “biofuels have a role to play right now” and announced a plan to expand the use of ethanol over the summer.
But privately, Biden dismissed the policy as ineffective and questioned the value of the trip, according to two people familiar with the conversations. After returning to the White House, he hauled his senior staff, including chief of staff Ron Klain, into the Oval Office, badgering them with questions about the purpose of the event.
Biden had worried even before the announcement that it exaggerated ethanol’s ability to cut gas prices and could harm his climate goals, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other officials urged Biden to go, arguing that it would at least help the Midwest — and the White House, after all, was desperate for ways to lower gas prices.
There’s no more “controlling” inflation for Biden, the horse is out of the barn. The time for steady, wise leadership was way back at the beginning of last year before Democrats passed another round of Covid spending and poured more printed money into the burning pit.
Many analysts, including some Democrats, are now realizing that Sen. Joe Manchin, despite taking heat for it at the time, was absolutely correct to oppose trillions of dollars in spending for Biden’s Build Back Better framework, bucking his own party at the time:
Senator Joe Manchin officially said no to the president’s signature Build Back Better legislation late last year, but progressives remain furious at him. While it is too much to ask them to thank the moderate senator from West Virginia, if they want to get anything done this year, they might acknowledge that he was basically right — about the bill itself and inflation.
Manchin’s behavior during President Joe Biden’s tenure hasn’t been perfect. It’s also true, however, that the bill the House passed was bad. Had it become law, inflation would be even worse today, and most of the money involved would have been wasted on temporary initiatives.
It’s hard to imagine a universe where inflation could’ve been worse today than it already is, but that universe would’ve been created if Build Back Better passed last year. Manchin did his party a favor by saving them from themselves, but many progressives will never admit it, they’d rather go down with the ship.
Biden’s approval rating is simply indicative of his lack of leadership and inability to recognize the looming economic crisis his policies were creating. Now, with no reasonable way to back down from $5.00 per gallon gas and rising costs of everything else, Biden’s prospects aren’t looking too hot for the midterms.
