President Joe Biden’s approval rating has never been something to admire.
Even at the best of times, Biden has struggled to crack into the upper forties and has had a near-impossible time of finding approval from a majority of the voting public.
In aggregate, Biden’s approval numbers remain in a hole that has now become a historical stat.
According to the average of public polling approval numbers from FiveThirtyEight, at this point in his presidency, Biden is now the least-popular post-war president with the exception of one:
Joe Biden is more unpopular than Donald Trump was at the same stage in his presidency, according to a comparison of polling data conducted by political analytics website FiveThirtyEight.
The website gave Biden a net approval rating of -14.6 percent on June 11, notably lower than the -10.9 percent Trump recorded the same number of days into his administration.
The FiveThirtyEight study also shows Biden is less popular following 874 days in the White House than all other post-war U.S. presidents, with the sole exception of Jimmy Carter. Just 41 percent of voters approve of the incumbent’s performance at this stage in the electoral cycle, versus 42.3 percent for President Trump, 47.4 percent for Barack Obama and 61.5 for George W. Bush. Carter was significantly less popular than any other president 874 days into his administration, with an approval rating of just 28.8 percent.
Regardless of how much coverage left-wing media can provide Biden, the expanding bribery scandal is likely to have a worsening effect on the numbers. In fact, scandal aside, Biden has never been a particularly strong or popular president.
Democrats view him as a placeholder until someone with a genuine progressive pedigree can take over.
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazille calls the numbers a wake-up call for Democrats:
Following a poll last month by The Washington Post-ABC News showing similarly poor approval ratings for Biden, including a fall of 6 points between February and May, political strategist Donna Brazile said Democrats should “wake up.”
“It’s sobering in the sense that the coalition that elected Joe Biden, with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. That should concern them,” she told ABC.
Joe Biden is not an inspiring figure. He’s a demagogue in issue after issue. Whatever problem comes his way always seems to be caused by “MAGA Republicans” and their dastardly plans to thwart his efforts. As a self-proclaimed “uniter,” Biden has failed miserably by attacking and labeling half the country as racist or homophobic of whatever form of insult he can hurl.
As noted above, Biden is less popular than Trump was at the same point during his first term. How can this be since, Donald Trump, as Democrats remind us daily, is all manner of terrible and divisive yet he somehow managed to be more popular than milquetoast Joe.
All of this suffices to say that Joe Biden, in his quest for re-election, remains divisive, unpopular, and unloved within his own party. If Democrats were on board with Joe 100%, his approval would be much higher than it is now. However, everyone has to buy gas and groceries so it’s hard to argue Biden’s policies have been successful by any measure.
Remember, this was the guy planning to restore “decency” to the White House:
WH condemns topless trans activist THEY invited to Pride event and (s)he just can't DEAL (watch) https://t.co/puAf8Kb1jP
— Jason Fry (@bamafryd) June 15, 2023
As he laughs off the erupting scandal surrounding alleged bribe money flowing in from Burisma, Biden will remain on the down escalator of popularity with Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike.
