President Biden did not show any improvement in the polls after last week’s State of the Union address, and new polls show no improvement for the incumbent.
Ahead of the State of the Union address, a Yahoo News/YouGov poll showed Biden’s approval rating at 40%. In a new study, released on Tuesday Despite the same combination, the president’s approval rating had dropped to 39 percent.
Also, ahead of the State of the Union address, former President Trump and former President Biden were statistically tied at 45% and 44%, respectively, in a head-to-head race in 2024. Tuesday’s poll shows Trump with 46% and Biden with 44%.
Other polls also show that the president was unable to change policy after addressing Congress. Calculating FiveThirtyEight Biden’s approval rating was just over 37 percent on Tuesday. On March 6, the day before his State of the Union address, an ABC News poll showed his approval rating at just under 38 percent.
Democrats hailed the State of the Union address as energetic and touted as a way for the 81-year-old Biden to demonstrate he will serve another four years in office. The president entered the speech with his approval ratings still low, with opinion polls showing him either level with Trump or lagging behind.
Fewer than 30% of respondents said it was enough for Biden to serve a second term, unchanged from the previous survey. More than 50% said the president is “mostly passive” in his role, compared to 54% in the previous survey.
The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll was conducted March 8-11 among 1,482 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points.
The president is traveling this week as part of a tour of battleground states after his State of the Union address. He will be in Wisconsin on Wednesday before heading to Michigan.
Biden officially won the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night after winning enough delegates. This makes it almost certain that the 2020 general election will be a rematch between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.
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