With one month left in office, President Biden’s approval rating is hitting a new low.
Biden has 34% approval and 66% disapproval in a national Marquette Law School poll conducted Dec. 2-11 and released Wednesday.
That’s four percentage points lower than in October and the lowest approval for Biden in Marquette Law School polls since the president took the White House four years ago.
The president’s approval sits in the mid-30s and low-40s in the latest national polls, including the most recent national Fox News poll, where Biden has 41% approval.
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President Biden attends a party at the White House on December 16, 2024 in Washington DC (AP)
Biden’s approval rating hovered in the low-50s during his first six months in the White House. However, the president’s numbers began to fall in August 2021 in the wake of Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turbulent situation. United States departure from Afghanistan and after an increase in COVID-19 cases that summer, mainly among unvaccinated people.
The drop in the president’s approval was also driven by rising inflation, which began to skyrocket in the summer of 2021 and remains to date one of Americans’ top pocketbook concerns, and the rise of immigrants attempting cross into the United States along the border. southern border with Mexico.
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the new marquette survey indicates that 53% of adults nationally say they approve of the way Trump handled his job during his first term in the White House (2017-2021), an increase of three points from its October survey.
“This is Trump’s highest approval rating since March, when this question about retrospective approval was first asked in the national Marquette Law School Poll,” the poll’s release notes.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Evan Vucci)
The poll also indicates that the public is divided over Trump’s Cabinet appointments for his second administration, some of which have sparked controversy.
Forty-nine percent of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of Cabinet appointments, and 51% disapproved.
According to the Fox News poll, conducted Dec. 6-9, 47% approved of the job Trump is doing in choosing his Cabinet, and 50% expressed approval.
Trump’s favorable rating stands at 49% favorable and 50% unfavorable in the Marquette poll, the highest in his post-first administration period.
A new poll gives insight into how Americans view President Biden (left) and President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson and Evan Vucci)
The president stands at 37% favorable and 62% unfavorable.
Vice President Kamala Harris has a 41% favorable rating and a 57% unfavorable rating in the new poll. That’s a drop from 45% favorable and 51% unfavorable in the October poll, when Harris was the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.
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Vice President-elect Senator JD Vance has a 35% favorable rating and 47% unfavorable rating in the new poll.
The Marquette Law School survey has an overall sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
