OAN’s Elizabeth Bolbelding
12:00 PM – Sunday, April 28, 2024
A new poll has revealed that US President Joe Biden is the least popular commander-in-chief of the past 70 years, behind only Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
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On Friday, gallup Surveys found in Surveys Biden, 81, has a disappointing presidential approval rating of 38.7% in the first quarter of 2024, which is 3 points lower than the approval rating of George H.W. Bush, who served one term during the same period. That’s what it means.
the last 13 yearsth Inaugural quarter started on January 20thth and ended on April 19thth, Biden’s approval rating for his inauguration averaged 38.7%. Of the nine other presidents elected to their first terms since Dwight Eisenhower, none fared as poorly as Biden over 13 terms.th Quarterly average.
“With approximately six months left until Election Day, Mr. Biden is in a weaker position than previous incumbents,” the poll said.
By contrast, at this stage of his presidency, former President Donald Trump’s approval rating was 46.8%.
According to the poll, Mr. Eisenhower had the highest approval rating at 73.2%, with even Mr. Nixon and Mr. Carter at 53.7% and 47.7%.
Since the Eisenhower administration took office in 1952, gallup conducts presidential approval surveys, and the results are a reliable indicator of re-election success.
Over the past 70 years, incumbent politicians who have maintained an approval rating of over 50% have been reelected to a second term on average. The only candidate to buck this trend was former President Barack Obama, who won in 2012 despite having a 46% approval rating six months before the general election.
Biden’s approval rating is the lowest since World War II and in the bottom 12% of all presidential quarters since 1945, making Biden’s performance this quarter the best of all first-term U.S. presidents. It falls into the worst category. Gallup history.
While Biden is supported, gallup This quarter’s polls fell to a new low, stuck in the low 40s since the president’s first year in office, due to a combination of catastrophic events such as a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, deteriorating border conditions, and rising inflation. ing.
according to gallupAfter 39 months in office, President Biden has the lowest approval rating of any elected executive in modern American history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1956): 73.2%
Ronald Reagan (1984): 54.5%
Richard Nixon (1972): 53.7%
Bill Clinton (1996): 53.0%
George W. Bush (2004): 51.0%
Jimmy Carter (1980): 47.7%
Donald Trump (2020): 46.8%
Barack Obama (2012): 45.9%
George H.W. Bush (1992): 41.8%
Joe Biden (2024): 38.7%
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