Another milestone for the Biden administration that’s not worth writing home about.
Despite all the hand-wringing about how suddenly Biden’s becoming an awesome president because Congress passed a fraction of his agenda or something, the economy is entering recession territory and the president’s approval is now lower than Carter, Reagan, Bush, W. Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Trump.
Also Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Nixon, for good measure.
In short, no modern president has dug a hole with voters this deep this early in their term. Everything Biden touches has turned sour and the American people have lost all confidence in his ability (or lack thereof) to get things done in Washington.
Behold, the Gallup chart of approval ratings for every modern president during their sixth quarter in office:
That’s worse than Donald Trump, Biden’s arch-political nemesis gunning for a challenge in 2024.
Gallup also notes that historically, Biden’s stuck where he is and the numbers are very unlikely to turn positive unless something truly monumental happens, think something like a 9/11-style political upheaval:
History suggests it would be unlikely for Biden’s approval rating to improve during his seventh quarter. To date, only one elected president — George H.W. Bush — has seen meaningful improvement in his seventh quarter. The increase reflected a rally in support for Bush after he condemned Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, which eventually led to the U.S. and allies fighting the Gulf War against Iraq in early 1991.
What the chart above also leaves out is that this is the first time in Gallup’s numbers that Biden’s approval has dropped below 40%, a grim milestone for a President heading into the midterms:
President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has fallen below 40% for the first time and now sits at a personal low of 38%. Between September and June, the president’s rating had ranged narrowly between 40% and 43%. Before that, Biden mostly received majority approval ratings.
A year ago, Biden’s honeymoon period came to an end when his approval rating dropped to 50% amid a surge in U.S. coronavirus cases. Since then, his public support has eroded after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the highest inflation in four decades, record-high gas prices and continuing supply chain issues.
Let’s say that Biden had been competent in tackling any one of these above-listed issues. After the Afghanistan withdrawal when America became acquainted with the cold side of President Empathy, things went downhill from there. After 13 troops were killed in Kabul and Biden continued to claim the withdrawal was a swimming success, that’s when the denial started setting in around the White House.
Since that time, it’s been issue after issue where Biden either ignored, downplayed, punted, or acted too late to make an impact or shape the course of the discussion.
Basically, the buck never stopped with Biden, it was always passed to someone else whether that was the previous administration, greedy oil companies, Putin’s Ukraine invasion, or just disgust that the American people ever expected better.
Biden is an out-of-touch career politician who knows deep down in places he won’t talk about at parties he’s not running for re-election in 2024. With numbers this bad, he wouldn’t stand a chance.
Scoring in the category of worst approval rating of any modern American president will be a bridge too far for the Democratic Party to swallow the next time around.
