So much for Biden’s miraculous approval recovery of two points over the past month.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll tracking President Biden’s approval rating finds the number now hitting 38% once again, just two points above the all-time low of 36%.
What happened? Biden was supposedly on the upswing while voters forgot about inflation and all of his other failures according to mainstream media outlets.
Not so, says Reuters, as the latest numbers are a “hide the kids” kind of spectacle that has Biden back to slidin’ once again:
President Joe Biden’s public approval rating fell modestly this week, a poor sign for his Democratic Party’s hopes in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday.
The two-day national poll found that 38% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance.
While Biden’s approval rating hit 41% last week, it has been mostly below 40% since mid-June despite a string of Democratic legislative victories that Biden’s allies hope will help them defend their narrow congressional majorities in November.
This is not the narrative Democrats have been selling for the past several weeks touting Biden’s big “turnaround” as he passed the laughable Inflation Reduction Act and managed to avoid questions about his failed Afghanistan withdrawal by spending most of August in Delaware.
Call it a dead cat bounce in the doldrums of August when many Americans are tuned out of politics and tuned out of the Biden malaise. The pattern usually holds that polling and politics usually pick back up in September once everyone gets in that last Labor Day holiday and the kids are back in school.
In more heartbreaking news for Democratic candidates just about ready to get back in the water and campaign alongside Biden, the economy is still the top concern among voters:
When poll respondents this week were asked to rank the nation’s biggest problems, the economy topped concerns, with a third of Republicans and a quarter of Democrats pointing to it as the top issue.
For Republicans, the next most pressing problems were immigration and crime, each of which topped concerns for about one in 10 Republicans.
Among Democrats, about one in eight saw the environment as the top issue, and about one in 10 pointed to the end of national abortion rights.
That last paragraph can’t be glossed over too quickly. Only 10% of Democrats said abortion was their top concern. In fact, abortion lost out to the environment as about 12% named climate change as their top issue.
For all the talk of an electorate mobilized by the Roe v. Wade reversal, it’s there, but it’s not overwhelming. There are far more Democrats concerned about inflation and the economy than secondary issues like abortion and the environment, a fact that won’t square well with Democrats ostensibly supporting Biden’s policies on the ballot in November.
Nothing has fundamentally changed in the state of the economy, inflation, or the overall mood of the country. Biden remains divisive as ever with more Americans now seeing the country as more divided than at any time in recent history.
No amount of celebratory bill signings for more government slush fund spending or student loan bailout vote buying can change Biden’s trajectory.
