The Ipsos/Reuters poll showed that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the current administration’s actions, particularly in the face of domestic issues such as soaring food and gas prices.
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Declining support for Biden, polls show.
United States President Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen to 39 percent, according to a Wednesday poll forecasting bad omens for the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
The Ipsos/Reuters poll showed that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the current administration’s actions, particularly in the face of domestic issues such as soaring food and gas prices.
The president’s popularity level has remained below 50 percent since August last year, even as Democratic politicians try to beat those numbers to avoid a debacle in the upcoming Nov. 8 general election.
The president’s decline in acceptance has yet to hit the bottom of his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose popularity bottomed at 33 percent in December 2017.
On Tuesday, Biden indicated his cabinet is focused on the economic dilemma, though he admitted he doesn’t have many ways to control the highest inflation in 40 years, especially with a tightly divided Senate and a Republican faction backed by the has committed to blocking his domestic political agenda. . .
The White House has repeatedly blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and the military operation in Ukraine for the inflation, which analysts say is largely the result of expansionary policies by Washington and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
However, experts list other democratic issues that are key to voters and negatively affecting Biden and Democrats, such as supply chain issues, the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the immigration dilemma, the rise in armed violence, among others.