Even Left-Wing Polls Show Biden’s Approval Rating at Record Low: AP-NORC Poll

“Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance,” according to the poll.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Joe Biden’s job performance approval has plummeted to a new low of 39% among both Republicans and Democrats, according to a new Associated Press-NORC poll.
  • “Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance as president” after dipping from “already negative ratings a month earlier,” AP reports. “Only about 2 in 10 adults say the U.S. is heading in the right direction or the economy is good, both down from about 3 in 10 a month earlier.”
  • Those stats represent the lowest approval rating of Biden’s White House tenure so far, down from 45% in mid-April and 63% a year ago.
  • Less than one in 10 Republicans surveyed approve of Biden.
  • The former Vice President’s popularity among Democrats has also declined, with 73% of his own party approving of his job performance now. Only 33% of Democrats say the U.S. is moving in the “right direction”
  • The poll notes that respondents had grown weary of Biden due to his inability to properly respond to inflation, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing baby formula shortage.
  • Gerry Toranzo, a 46-year-old nurse and a Republican in Chicago said that Biden’s policies “are destroying the economy.” “It’s a vicious cycle of price increases,” Toranzo added.
Screenshot from The Associated Press taken May 20, 2022
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT ON BIDEN’S PERFORMANCE:

“I don’t know how much worse it can get,” 29-year-old Santa Monica, California Democrat Milan Ramsey told the AP, arguing that Biden “hasn’t delivered on any of the promises.” “I feel like the stimulus checks came out and that was the last win of his administration,” Ramsey also said of Biden. “I think he’s tired — and I don’t blame him, I’d be tired too at his age with the career he’s had.”

BACKGROUND:
  • The AP-NORC poll was conducted May 12-16 among 1,172 U.S. adults.
  • AllSides, a company that assesses the political bias of news organizations, found that those who identify as having a left-wing or center political bias viewed AP’s reporting bias center-left, and those identifying as right-wing rated AP as left-leaning: “On average, people who reported their own personal political bias as being Left, Lean Left, or Center saw AP’s bias as Center but close to the border between Lean Left and Center; people who identified as Lean Right and Right saw AP’s bias as clearly Lean Left,” AllSides reports.

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