Joe Biden's Approval Rating Falls to All-Time Low After SOTU
By: Ewan Palmer (Newsweek)
Just goes to show that you can fool yourself all the time but that ain't gonna fool anybody else very often.
Hey, Joe, you need to buy more votes! Indoctrinating a few more Bobbleheads for Biden might do the trick. Or maybe the Biden campaign just needs more Trump.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Joe Biden's average approval rating is currently at its lowest of his entire time in office despite a positive reaction to his recent State of the Union address.
Biden's approval rating currently stands at 37.4 percent, the lowest since he recorded an average of 37.6 percent in December 2023, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight's national average calculations.
Biden's disapproval rating is at 56.5 percent, giving the president a net disapproval score of 19.2 points—both of which are record markers of disapproval for the president.
The average ratings come amid long-standing concerns Biden has faced about his struggling poll numbers and a lack of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old's reelection bid. On Tuesday night, both Biden and Donald Trump were confirmed as the Democratic and Republican nominees for the 2024 election respectively, setting up a rematch of the 2020 race.
The White House has been contacted for comment via email.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2023. Biden's approval rating is currently at an all-time low...U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2023. Biden's approval rating is currently at an all-time low of 37.4 percent. More SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP/Getty Images
Biden's low approval rating comes close on the heels of recent polls suggesting that potential voters were encouraged by the president's State of the Union address on March 7.
During the speech, Biden hit out at Trump for trying to win the November election by running on a campaign of "hate, anger, revenge, retribution" while also slamming the "insurrectionists" who "stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy" during the January 6 attack.
Biden listed his accomplishments in office, including stating the U.S. economy rose from being "on the brink" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to one which is now "literally the envy of the world."
Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York, said Biden gave "one hell of a speech" on March 7.
"President Biden literally said 'hell' more often than I could count. He was a bulldog in this SOTU. He was combative, funny, and aggressive. It also was the most pro-union speech I've ever heard from a U.S. president," Brown previously told Newsweek.
"This clearly was the official launch of his reelection campaign, and a good one at that."
According to a CNN poll, 65 percent of those who watched the State of the Union address had a positive reaction to Biden's speech, including 35 percent who reacted "very positively" to Biden's remarks.
Elsewhere, a YouGov survey conducted on March 8 found that 30 percent of Americans believe that people will have a more positive view of Biden following his SOTU speech, compared to 23 percent who believe people would view the president in a more negative light, and 26 percent saying it wouldn't change people's views at all.
A Harris Insights & Analytics survey conducted after the SOTU address showed that Biden's overall approval rating was 37 percent.
When the results were broken down to just those who watched Biden's speech, support for the president increased to 43 percent.
The poll also shows Trump beating Biden by 5 points in a head-to-head presidential election race (46 to 41 percent) and by 2 points between those who watched the SOTU address (47 to 45 percent).
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Looks like pandering to minorities doesn't translate to a majority. Biden is gonna have to do something about the border because his polling is headed south. ¡Ay, caramba!
He did, trump told his puppets to not vote for it. Katie Britt helped write the border bill and after talking to trump, she voted against it.
Let that sink in, she voted against her own bill.
Ya! They all bow to the former 'president'! When it tells them to jump, they ask the turd how high?
Why would Republicans vote for a POS bill that does nothing to close the border; when the Republican House has passed not one but two border security bills that Schumer refuses to even bring to the floor?
Yeah? Did Britt vote against the part she wrote or, just possibly, Britt voted against the part Mayorkas wrote? Just because Republicans get their crap in the legislation doesn't translate to supporting Democrats' crap.
The bipartisan immigration bill allowed more than five times more illegal immigrants to invade the US, each year, than the number of Russians that invaded Ukraine. Can you imagine what would happen if Ukraine allowed 2 million Russians to illegally immigrate each year? And illegal immigrants are already exerting more influence over US elections than does Russians. Maduro ain't a kinder, gentler dictator. In fact Maduro is worse than Putin in many ways. But Biden allows Maduro to pull his strings?
So, Biden wants to fight Putin but tucks tail with Maduro?
Hmm. So reading far left talking points that appeal only to extremists and attacking a woman for talking in a kitchen followed by apologizing for offending an illegal alien who murdered a girl didn't revive Biden. Who'd a thunk it?
C'mon Sean, even the right wing is embarrassed by Britt's epic failure of a speech.
Than why did Biden's ratings go down and Trump's go up? The only moment that mattered was Biden calling the murdered girl by the wrong name and then apologizing to her murderer afterwards.
I get the need to deflect from Biden's performance, but her speech was fine and the overreaction to it was hysterical and desperate.
I’ve heard not a single democrat say Biden’s performance was poor. Republicans all over the place are face palming over Britt’s horrible performance though. You know this. Who do you believe you are fooling with this crap?
Wow! A Democrat didn't criticize their leader. That's shocking and not at all been the same story for every speech/debate etc this century. The borg is gonna borg, especially for a speech pandering to the far left.
Next you are going to tell me Saturday Night Live mocked the Republican and didn't make fun of the actual President. Shocking stuff!
Republicans all over the place are face palming
Again, shocking. The MSNBC/CNN house "Republicans" whose job it is to attack Republicans didn't like her speech? Who could have seen that coming?
I've not seen any Republicans whose job isn't to attack Republicans "face palm" over Britt's speech. It's a forgettable non story like every other rebuttal. Republicans seem much more interested in talking about Biden's speech, since he's the President.
I'ved not seen any Republicans whose job isn't to attack Republicans "face palm" over Britt's speech.
You are unreal. Republicans are so hopelessly fractured that there are factions of them whose job it is to attack other Republicans - and somehow are supposed to vote these buffoons into public office?
Psst... They aren't actual Republicans. Haven't you caught onto to the grift yet? Haven't you noticed it's always the same "Republicans" trotted out and all they ever do is attack the Republican position?
I googled some actual conservative sites to see their responses. This is the general tenor with some general criticism:
SOTU: Alabama Senator Katie Britt Brings the Youth and the Fire in Her Rebuttalhttps:
//redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/03/08/sotu-alabama-senator-katie-britt-brings-the-youth-and-the-fire-in-her-rebuttal-n2171089
Her speech isn’t for dudes. They’re all already voting for Trump. It’s for suburban women, the kinds of people who buy into the idea that Republicans are all old rich white dudes, and might be persuadable because they don’t like Biden, Kamala or Trump.
Psst... They aren't actual Republicans.
Yes, they are Republicans in the classical sense. Their problem is that their party left them to follow a carnival barking criminal thug.
Katie Britt sounded like a creep and her words werent far behind.
She'd be better off saying "my delivery wasn't good" than trying to make a martyr out of herself