Biden’s lowest average is still higher than Trump’s highest over his four years in office
Joe Biden’s honeymoon, if he had one, is probably over. Photo: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images For the first five months of Joe Biden’s presidency, his job-approval ratings were amazingly stable. As CNN’s Harry Enten put it in late May after a crazy stretch of news, “It’s almost as if no event seems to really change public opinion.”
Now, Republicans will claim Biden is massively losing popularity because of the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, inflation fears, reaction to his COVID-19 policies, or the socialism implicit in his budget. Truth is, some of the polls in these averages were taken before the drama broke out in Kabul, and averages are just averages: In the past week, Biden’s approval ratings have ranged from 45 percent to 53 percent . And while there is a downward drift, it’s hardly precipitous, and .
Biden’s ratings among independents have fallen in recent weeks — a sample of polls conducted since early July by Morning Consult, The Economist/YouGov and Ipsos suggests Biden’s approval with this group has fallen by an average of 2 to 4 percentage points in recent weeks. But Biden had already been slowly losing ground among independents.
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