Biden Approval Lowest In History At This Point In Presidency

President Joe Biden has set a historic precedent, nevertheless it’s not one he, his administration, or his marketing campaign needs to be happy with.

According to Gallup, Biden’s approval score stands at a document low of 38.7 % at this juncture in a president’s first time period, marking the bottom level within the nation’s historical past for the reason that polling agency commenced its surveys, as reported by the Washington Times.

“None of the other nine presidents elected to their first term since Dwight Eisenhower had a lower 13th-quarter average than Biden,” Gallup said, referring to the interval between Jan. 20 and April 19. “From a broader historical perspective, Biden’s most recent quarterly average ranks 277th out of 314 presidential quarters in Gallup records dating to 1945. That puts it in the bottom 12% of all presidential quarters.”

The Times added, citing Gallup’s knowledge, that over the identical interval of their presidencies, former President George H.W. Bush holds the second-lowest score at 41.8%, adopted by former Presidents Obama at 45.9% and Trump at 46.8%.

In October, after a brutal and lethal shock assault by the Hamas terrorist group on Israel, President Biden’s approval score took one other hit. What’s stunning is that the dip in his recognition got here principally from Democratic voters, who have been sad together with his support for Israel within the wake of the assault.

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A current report from Pew Research has proven that Catholics within the United States have shifted their support in direction of former President Donald Trump and away from Biden.

In a head-to-head matchup between the 2 candidates, 55% of Catholics now support or lean in direction of supporting former President Donald Trump, whereas solely 45% support Biden. This represents a big shift in support for Trump since 2020 when he held a really slender lead of fifty% to 49%.

Biden at present has a slender lead amongst Hispanic Catholics, with 49% supporting him and 47% supporting Trump. However, this nonetheless represents a serious shift rightward for this demographic, as an analogous ballot in 2020 discovered that 67% of Hispanic Catholics most well-liked Biden to Trump.

Protestants, however, expressed overwhelming support for Trump, with roughly 60% backing him, and solely about 38% leaning in direction of Biden, Fox News reported.

Atheists, agnostics, and the religiously unaffiliated broke in favor of Biden by a big margin, with round 69% saying they’d again the Democratic incumbent, whereas solely 28% voiced support for Trump.

Despite his efforts to claim himself as a religious Catholic, Biden’s support of insurance policies that go towards the teachings of the Catholic Church, corresponding to pro-choice deregulation and affirmation of gender ideology, has been met with pushback from Catholic leaders.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., beforehand known as Biden a “Caféteria Catholic,”  saying he “picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts.”

Meanwhile, in an earlier USA TODAY/Suffolk University ballot, Trump defeated Biden 40% to 38%, drawing a near-tie in a unstable voters because the candidates get underway.

“Nearly eight months out, the election is not set yet. One in four people surveyed said they might change their minds before November. That unsettled sentiment was bipartisan, including 14% of Biden voters and 15% of Trump voters,” USA Today reported.

The outlet added: “Most of those now backing a third-party candidate said they were open to changing their minds, among them 75% of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporters and 94% of Jill Stein supporters. That signals the potential erosion independent candidates often see as Election Day nears. It also provides a big opportunity for each major-party candidate to make his case to voters who are now reluctant to support him and to convince those voters that it would be dangerous or unwise to back the other guy.”

Concerns about immigration (24%) and challenges to democracy (23%) trailed carefully behind voters’ rankings of inflation and the economic system, which accounted for 29% of their vote.

Abortion was the one different matter to achieve double digits, coming in at 10%, the ballot found.

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