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President Joe Biden has only been in office for 18 months and he’s officially captured the lowest approval rating of any president in the last 75 years.
Not since Harry Truman has an active president had an approval rating in the 30s at this point in their term.
Back in 1946, Truman’s approval rating was a truly awful 33% back.
Now, Biden has the lowest approval rating of a sitting president in modern American history with the exception of Truman.
“Biden’s approval rating, which has dropped to 38.4 percent, is historically lower than any other modern-day president’s with the exception of Harry Truman’s in his second year in office. In 1946, Truman’s approval rating was 33 percent 18 months into his term,” Breitbart reported.
Biden’s approval rating 18 months into his presidency is worse than the following presidents’ at the same stage of their terms:
Donald Trump (42.1 percent)
Barack Obama (46.3 percent)
George W. Bush (66.9 percent)
Bill Clinton (46 percent)
George H.W. Bush (63.2 percent)
Ronald Reagan (44 percent)
Jimmy Carter (42.1 percent)
Gerald Ford (44.3 percent)
Richard Nixon (54.1 percent)
Lyndon B. Johnson (64 percent)
John F. Kennedy (69 percent)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (69.9 percent)
According to a separate poll from Civiqs, Biden’s approval rating dropped to a historic low of 29 percent over the weekend.
“While it’s just one poll, though from a liberal outfit, the latest Civiqs approval rating for Biden is 29%, with 58% disapproving, by far the worst poll for the president,” the Washington Examiner reports.
https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1546134471841292294
Rumors are also flying that some of Biden’s allies have at least looked into the idea of replacing Vice President Kamala Harris.
In an explosive story last month from New York Magazine, titled, “There Has to Be a Backup Plan. There’s a Backup Plan, Right? Inside the 2024 soul-searching that’s happening in every corner of the Democratic Party,” author Gabriel Debenedetti discusses how Democrats are facing a reckoning.
Debenedetti notes how there seems to be a major divide between Biden and his allies on one side and Harris and her loyalists on the other.
With Trumpism re-ascendant, ambivalence about Biden’s age and political standing is fueling skepticism just as the image of his understudy, Vice-President Kamala Harris, dips even further than his. The most recent analysis from the Los Angeles Times has her net approval rating at negative 11. The result is a bizarre disconnect within the Democratic Party, with two factions talking past each other.
One group consists of Biden and his loyalists, who are convinced that while the ticket’s numbers are undeniably bleak, they’re historically unsurprising for a president and VP facing their first midterm and will surely bounce back. The second group comprises a broad swath of the Democratic elite and rank and file alike, who suspect that vectors of age, succession, and strategy have created a dynamic with no obvious parallel in recent history.
“Biden has to run again because he desperately has to keep Trump out of the White House and defend our democracy,” as one Capitol Hill supporter puts it. “And I have no doubts Kamala Harris can’t win.”
Late last year, a CNN report alleged that White House insiders are painting a picture of total chaos and discontent between Biden and Harris.
“Kamala Harris is a leader but is not being put in positions to lead,” a top Democratic donor said. “[Biden] should be putting her in positions to succeed, as opposed to putting weights on her. If you did give her the ability to step up and help her lead, it would strengthen you and strengthen the party.”
“That chatter has already reached top levels of the Biden orbit, according to one person who’s heard it,” CNN reported.
“She’s perceived to be in such a weak position that top Democrats in and outside of Washington have begun to speculate privately, asking each other why the White House has allowed her to become so hobbled in the public consciousness, at least as they see it,” the report said. “Republicans and right-wing media turned Harris into a political target from the moment she was picked for the ticket. And implicit racism and sexism have been constant.”
