Because of losing power among independent voters, Joe Biden’s approval rating fell below 50% for the first time during his presidency.
Biden’s approval ratings for the two poll data aggregators, FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics, were both slightly lower than 50% this week.
A new Reuters poll conducted on Monday found that Biden’s national approval rate fell to 46%, a 7 percentage point drop from the president’s approval rate last Friday, when the president’s approval rate was 53%.
Geoffrey Skelley of FiveThirtyEight pointed out that independent voters are behind the decline in Biden’s approval rating.
The latest YouGov/economist The survey found that 48% of independent voters disapprove of Biden, an increase of 4 percentage points from earlier this month, when 44% of independent voters disapproved of his way of working as commander-in-chief.
In early August, Morning Consult also found that Biden’s approval rate among independent voters was declining. The poll found that since April, Biden’s net approval rate among non-party voters has fallen by 18 percentage points.
Biden’s approval rating is at its lowest level so far Taliban Take over Afghanistan. The militant group quickly seized the US-backed government, which coincided with the withdrawal of US troops.
The president defended his decision to withdraw American combat troops from the area, saying on Monday that the chaos that was taking place was “distressing” but accused the Afghan army of reluctance to fight.
“I firmly support my decision,” Biden said in a speech at the White House. “Twenty years later, I learned with difficulty that it has never been a good time to withdraw troops.”
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The President pointed out that this decades-long war cost the United States nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer funds and thousands of American lives.
On Sunday, after the Taliban entered the presidential palace, they formally took control of the capital, Kabul. Images from the city’s Hamid Karzai International Airport show hundreds of Afghans trying to flee the country.
A Reuters poll found that the majority of Americans (61%) still support the completion of the U.S. military withdrawal as planned. Biden had previously set a deadline of August 31 for the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan.
Most people surveyed (68%) also agree with the statement that, no matter when, the war in Afghanistan will end in disastrous defeat. American armies left.
But Biden was rated worse than the other three presidents who presided over the longest war in the United States. Only 44% of the interviewees said that the current government did a good job of hosting the war. 47% think the Bush administration is doing a good job, while 51% think the Obama and Trump administrations are doing a good job.
