Biden approval mired near record low: Survey
President Biden’s approval rating has been stuck near record lows, lingering around 40 percent, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Forty percent of respondents approving of Biden’s performance as president in the Reuters/Ipsos three-day opinion poll is a marginal increase from 39 percent in November.
Americans ranked the economy, crime, and immigration as the biggest problems facing the country in the new poll.
The president has struggled to break through on his messaging about his economic agenda, with Americans still feeling the impacts of inflation on the price of goods and gas. Crime and immigration are both hot-button issues that Republicans are have been hammering Biden and Democrats about since the midterm elections.
Biden’s approval rating saw a modest increase last month to 45 percent in a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll. That survey found that 44 percent of respondents approved of Biden’s handling of the economy, which was an increase from 41 percent in October.
The president faces reelection next year and has been stepping up his travel, most recently to California and Massachusetts, to fundraise. He is likely to face former President Trump, who has held onto his position as the GOP front-runner all year, in a rematch in November.
Overall, Biden’s approval rating has been lingering below 50 percent since August 2021 and hit is lowest level, 36 percent, in 2022.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll closed Sunday and took responses from 1,017 adults. It has a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.