Now, three years into his presidency, Joe Biden's approval rating is making history.
But not in the way Biden had hoped.
“During President Joe Biden's third full year in office, spanning Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024, an average of 39.8 percent of Americans approved of his job performance,” the polling firm Gallup reports.
It's the worst average third-year approval rating in 45 years.
“Among prior presidents in the Gallup polling era who were elected to their first term, only Jimmy Carter fared worse in his third year. Carter averaged 37.4 percent approval in a year in which gas prices soared, inflation reached double digits and Iranian militants took U.S. citizens hostage,” Gallup notes.
Biden's rating edged out the previous worst-since-Carter, Donald Trump. Trump's 42.0 percent average was once the worst since Carter, but is now 2.2 percent better than Biden's.
“Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon also had sub-50 percent third-year averages. Dwight Eisenhower's 72.1 percent is the highest for a third-year president.” Gallup notes.
Whereas Obama, Reagan, Clinton and Nixon all rebounded to win re-election Biden's approval is, so far, trending in the wrong direction.
“Biden's third-year average was lower than both his first-year (48.9 percent) and second-year (41.0 percent) averages,” Gallup notes, adding “Biden registered new personal lows of 37 percent job approval in April, October and November 2023 surveys.”
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