What is it with Iowa and President Joe Biden?
Voters there never liked his past presidential campaigns, and former President Donald Trump beat him last year 53%-44%.
About the only time that he has not been underwater in polls was after his inauguration, when he had a 47% approval rating in a Des Moines Register poll.
But even those underwhelming results haven’t held, especially after Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the surging immigration crisis at the border.
And today, the latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll has him in worse shape than Trump was at this stage of his presidency.
“Thirty-one percent of Iowans approve of how Biden is handling his job, while 62% disapprove and 7% are not sure,” said the state’s top paper.
“That’s a 12 percentage point drop in approval from June, the last time the question was asked. Biden’s disapproval numbers jumped by 10 points during the same period. In June, 43% approved and 52% disapproved,” it added.
Nationally, Biden is on a very bad slide down and appears to have also lost his momentum on Capitol Hill, where his policy agenda and spending plans are in trouble.
“This is a bad poll for Joe Biden, and it’s playing out in everything that he touches right now,” said Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer.
