After just seven months in office, Joe Biden’s approval ratings slipped below 50%. Since then, things have only gotten worse
won the White House last year with 52.3% of the two-party popular vote, a higher share than either Barack Obama managed in 2012 or Donald Trump in 2016 . He was even more popular during his first few weeks in office: his net approval rating—the difference between the share of voters who support and oppose him—was plus 14 percentage points, according to’s weekly poll with YouGov. But after just seven months in office, his approval ratings slipped below 50%.
It is hard to know exactly what accounts for the slump. Some pin the blame on the surge in covid-19 cases and deaths over the summer, fuelled by the highly contagious Delta variant. After all, voters elected Mr Biden in large part because he was seen as better equipped than Mr Trump to tackle the pandemic.
Our polling suggests a different story entirely. In fact, voters strongly approve of Mr Biden’s handling of the coronavirus. And his support among Democrats has held fairly steady, even as his net approval among political independents has fallen by 15 percentage points, from minus 10 points to minus 25, over the past two months.
Voters’ disappointment on these two fronts may be justified. Mr Biden has failed to get any big health-care reforms passed . The public’s chief economic worry is inflation, which is mostly outside the president’s control but which he will still probably be blamed for. It is unlikely that Mr Biden will solve these problems soon. If things do not improve, he may soon end up with worse ratings than even Mr Trump.
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