Pew Poll: Most Dems Say Biden Failing With Border

According to a Pew Research Center poll released Thursday, 73% of Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters say President Joe Biden is doing a “somewhat bad” job or a “very bad job” of “dealing with the large number of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. at the border with Mexico.”

Additionally, 80% of all of those surveyed say the U.S. government is doing a bad job dealing with the large number of migrants at the border, including 45% who say it’s doing a very bad job.

Republicans’ views are overwhelmingly negative (89% say the government is doing a bad job), as they have been since Biden became president, while 73% of Democrats also give the government negative ratings, the highest share recorded during Biden’s presidency.

The poll, taken between Jan. 16-21 among 5,140 U.S. adults, also found:

• Republicans are more likely than Democrats to describe the situation as a “crisis”: 70% of Republicans say this, compared with 22% of Democrats.
• Democrats mostly view the situation as a major problem (44%) or minor problem (26%) for the U.S. Few Democrats (7%) say it is not a problem.
• 57% of Americans say the large number of migrants seeking to enter the country leads to more crime, while 39% say this does not have much of an impact on crime.
• 72% of Republicans say substantially expanding the wall along the U.S. border with Mexico would make the situation better. Just 15% of Democrats concur, with most saying either it would not make much of a difference (47%) or it would make things worse (24%).