Americans may have found something they like less than a hypothetical Kamala Harris presidency: four more years of Joe Biden.
A new poll released Monday shows the vice president’s favorability rating slightly above that of the commander in chief for the first time, as reports indicate growing alarm within the White House about Biden’s prospects in 2024.
The Monmouth University poll showed that Biden, 81, received just a 34% approval rating (the lowest in the poll’s tracking of his administration and 20 percentage points below his high in April 2021) and a disapproval rate of 61%.
Harris fares a little better, but his 35% approval rating and 57% disapproval rating are positive marks compared to his boss.
Most worrying for Biden’s re-election campaign is his 24% approval rating among independents, 14 points lower than in July.
Additionally, more than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the president’s handling of the twin crises that have plagued his administration: immigration (69%) and inflation (68%).
Kamala Harris is now more popular than President Biden, poll finds. AP
“The Biden administration continues to tout its infrastructure investments and a number of positive economic indicators,” said Patrick Murray of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. “That data may be objective, but most Americans are still smarting from higher prices caused by post-pandemic inflation. This seems to be what is driving public opinion. “There is a political danger in spreading a message that basically tells people that their opinion about their own situation is wrong.”
The poll includes a rebuke to the president’s campaign message that life is getting better for Americans thanks to “Bidenomy”: 69% feel the country is going in the wrong direction and only 20% believe things are going right. the right direction.
Joe Biden’s approval rating continues to fall.
Publicly, Biden has downplayed his dismal numbers, especially in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 race against Republican rival Donald Trump.
However, reports indicate a different story behind closed doors.
President Biden puts on a happy face about his 2024 prospects, but behind the scenes he reportedly has some concerns. AP
“You don’t read the polls,” the president told reporters on November 9. “I will give you 10 polls, in eight of them I am beating you.” [Trump] in those states. Eight of them. You only make two.”
Eleven days later, after the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardon, Biden complained to his closest aides during a meeting that his poll numbers were too low and he wanted to know what was being done about it, the newspaper reported. Monday the Washington Post.
The outlet added that the president and first lady Jill Biden have recently become “upset” about the lack of improvement in Biden’s standing. The Monmouth poll did not look at a Trump-Biden matchup, but the RealClearPolitics average of polls showed the 45th president leading his successor by 3.5 percentage points in the popular vote as of Monday.
The bad feeling has spread to other Democrats, and the party will try to regain control of the House of Representatives next year and expand its majority in the Senate despite an unfavorable map.
Donald Trump has outperformed President Biden in a series of recent polls. fake images
In Michigan, for example, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin has told allies she fears she won’t win the state’s open Senate seat if Biden tops the ticket, the Washington Post added.
There have even been times when Biden himself has expressed apparent ambivalence about seeking a second term.
“If Trump didn’t run, I’m not sure I would run,” he said at a fundraiser near Boston earlier this month, before adding, “We can’t let him win.”
The next day, Biden told reporters that “probably 50” Democrats could defeat Trump, 77, before insisting that “I have to run” and promising not to drop out of the race if Trump somehow drops out.
Part of the problem appears to be the administration’s points of emphasis. In the Monmouth poll, only 31% said Biden was paying enough attention to the issues that were most important to them and their families, while 65% said he was not.
“We are not where we want to be,” Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg told the Washington Post. “Some members of our coalition are wandering and we have to get them back.”
Voters have expressed some concerns about President Biden’s age. At 81, he is already the oldest sitting president in US history. fake images
“I think a lot of activists feel like everyone they know is happy with the president,” added former Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.). “They don’t understand who is dissatisfied in the majority of the country and what to do to change their minds.
“Many of us are looking at the leadership campaign about how we are going to get through that together and what role they need us to play.”
Biden’s allies attempted to do just that in early November, presenting their action plan in a conference room at the Sheraton in Chicago.
Instead of being reassured, many in attendance (including allies of Barack Obama’s two campaigns) were taken aback by a presentation lacking detail and substance, New York Magazine reported.
Former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod has been the leading pessimist, describing Biden’s poll numbers as “very, very dark” and giving the president a 50-50 chance, at best. of being re-elected.
The president has publicly downplayed the polls. AP
Biden allies, led by former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, have warned that Democrats who want to defeat Trump have no choice but to support the incumbent next year.
They have also taken solace in their fundraising (which is expected to hit its $67 million goal by the final quarter of this year, according to the Washington Post) and a series of off-year election victories for Democrats in Kentucky, New York. Jersey and Virginia.
“Time and time again, Biden exceeds expectations. It happened in 2020, it happened in 2022, it happened Tuesday night,” communications director Michael Tyler told reporters at the time.
“You see days, weeks, months of breathless predictions about how terrible things will be for Joe Biden,” he added, “followed by an election day of historic victories.”
The Monmouth University poll surveyed 803 adults from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points.
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