Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s acceptance rates continue to fall in his second year in the White House, with only 40% of Americans approving of his work, according to a new NBC News poll. This is the lowest score Biden has ever seen in his presidency. Biden’s 3 percentage point drop in job approval since January comes as the vast majority of Americans continue to say the United States is moving in the wrong direction, according to the poll. Overall, 71% of those polled said they believed the country was “on the wrong track”. This is one percentage point lower than the percentage of respondents who gave this answer in the same poll conducted in mid-January. The latest sad numbers for Biden come as he leads a Western coalition backing Ukraine’s resistance to Russian invasion. year of the Covid-19 pandemic. “What this poll says is that President Biden and the Democrats are leading to a disastrous election,” Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinions Strategy, who conducted the poll with Hart Research’s Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt, told NBC News. Associates. The poll involved 1,000 adults, 790 of whom were registered voters, for four days last week. Has a margin of error of 3.1% among all respondents. The political party of the incumbent presidents usually sees a loss of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the by-elections. All 435 seats in Parliament are at stake in the November 2022 elections, while 35 seats in the Senate are at stake. Democrats have a marginal majority of 12 votes in Parliament. Democrats control the Senate only because of a tie by Vice President Kamala Harris, which could turn the tide in their favor when all 48 Democrats and two independent senators in the bloc vote against the 50 GOP senators.
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Read more about CNBC political coverage: Biden has seen his public acceptance decline significantly since taking office in January 2021, after defeating then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Trump recently strongly suggested he would run for the Republican presidency again in 2024. Biden said Thursday that he would be “very lucky” to face Trump in the next election, a harassment that could be justified by the relatively high negative acceptance rates of Trump himself. But the incumbent Democratic president is in a growing public approval vacuum. In a March 2021 poll by NBC News, three months after his presidency, Biden had an approval rating of 53% of all Americans and 51% of registered voters. The same poll found that 39% of all Americans and 43% of registered voters disapproved of his performance. In the new poll, only 41% of registered voters approved of Biden’s performance and 54% of voters disapproved. Only 16% of registered voters said they strongly endorsed Biden’s work, while 43% strongly disapproved. When Biden took office in January 2021, only 21% of Americans believed the United States was moving in the right direction, with 73% saying they were on the wrong track. Three months later, the numbers had changed significantly, with 36% saying the country was moving in the right direction and 56% saying the opposite. After that, however, Americans became more pessimistic again, with only 22% of people saying the United States was heading in the right direction, a percentage that has not changed since the October NBC poll. When Americans were asked how they personally felt about Biden, a total of 37% said they had very positive or somewhat positive feelings. A total of 46% said they had very negative or somewhat negative feelings about him. When people were asked about Trump, 36% said they had very positive or somewhat positive feelings about him. Overall, 50% had very negative or somewhat negative feelings about the former president.
