US President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 39% in his third straight weekly decline, approaching the lowest level of his presidency, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. fair (14).
The two-day national poll showed that 56% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance.
Biden’s approval rating has been below 50% since August, a sign that his Democratic Party may be on track to lose control of at least one of the Houses of Congress in the Nov.
Biden has been rocked this year by a spike in inflation, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helping to drive up fuel prices, and with global supply chains still crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Biden’s decline in popularity was largely driven by dissatisfaction within his own party.
Seventy-four percent of Democrats approved of Biden’s performance this week, down from about 85% in August. Only 11% of Republicans approved of the president, virtually unchanged from August.
Biden’s overall approval rating has not yet reached the lows of his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose popularity reached 33% in December 2017. Biden’s lowest rating so far was 36% in late May.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll is conducted online in English across the United States. The latest poll gathered responses from a total of 1,005 adults, including 443 Democrats and 364 Republicans. It has a credibility interval – a measure of accuracy – of four percentage points.
Source: CNN Brasil
