Joe BidenThe average approval rating for his presidency has dropped below 50 percent for the first time since his disastrous return from Afghanistan. Taliban Join more than a week.
across two different averages tracked by five thirty eight And real clear politicsOn August 16, Biden took his stand of overall approval from half America and the numbers continue to drop.
The day Biden’s approval fell below 50 percent, he doubled down on his decision to withdraw the US military presence from Afghanistan after two decades.
It also comes as the president has faced criticism from both sides of the political aisle for keeping quiet and claiming he was ‘evacuating’ at Camp David as the Taliban took Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled.
The FiveThirtyEight average showed Biden fell more than 49.9 percent of his average approval on Monday and 49.3 percent of his average approval on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the RealClearPolitics average, which includes somewhat similar and somewhat different polling sources, is sitting on presidential approval 49.6 as of Wednesday. It sat at the lowest level in Biden’s presidency on Tuesday, tracking an average approval rating of 49.4 percent.
Following the chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, Joe Biden’s average approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in his presidency – below 50 percent. The President arrived in DC from Camp David on August 17th
A FiveThirtyEight average shows Biden at all-time-low approval, with 49.3% on Wednesday
A different polling average from RealClearPolitics showed Biden on Tuesday at 49.4% approval
The latest numbers show a steady decline since around May, when Biden and the CDC announced relaxed mask guidance, which allowed for some semblance of normalcy before reinstating indoor mask mandates late last month.
Since taking office on January 20, Biden has received a fairly steady flurry of approval, between 51-55 percent.
FiveThirtyEight for Biden peaked in March with 55.1 percent approval, and RealClearPolitics’ peak for the current president peaked in April with 55.7 percent.
Former President Donald Trump’s average approval rating was between 40-45 percent during his majority of four years. Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was roughly in the 45-50 percent range, according to the FiveThirtyEight average.
A separate poll released Monday showed that nearly seven in 10 potential primary election voters disapproved of Biden’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan, which is widely attributed to his decline in overall approval.
Biden received a small voting boost earlier this summer as the mask mandate was eased with more Americans vaccinated. Since becoming president, Biden has scored highly for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The mask mandate, however, became effective for all vaccinated Americans in indoor public places in high-case areas – such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Also contributing to the decline in approval is the withdrawal of Afghanistan.
Biden’s approval began to dwindle on Monday, when another poll showed nearly 7 in 10 Americans refused to deal with a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which has taken over the Taliban in just a week.
Around the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 17, hundreds of Afghans were desperate to try to take off from Afghanistan.
Even some progressive Democrats have admitted that while they agree to a withdrawal, they do not think the execution was done right by the Biden administration.
Also there are complications with the takeover of the Taliban as well as the evacuation of Americans and American allies from Afghanistan.
On Monday, US citizens stranded in Afghanistan were told to take refuge in Kabul airport instead of leaving as it came under attack from the Taliban and were forced to close as Afghan citizens tried to get to it. Was. He crossed the tarmac in a desperate attempt. evacuation flights.