The percentage of people who think the president deserves reelection is the lowest in over three decades, with fewer than 4 in 10 eager for a Biden repeat.
In the latest Gallup survey, support for reelecting President Joe Biden sunk to 38%, the lowest that number has been in 32 years.
That’s even lower than his 41% approval rating in the new survey.
The gloomy results for the liberal president follow several other polls showing him losing to former President Donald Trump, though many of those polls show that voters don’t want either to return to the White House.
Gallup, however, did offer a glimmer of hope for the incumbent. The survey firm made the case that a couple of other recent presidents who were underwater in polling leading to an election won, though none were as undeserving as Biden is.
“In January of prior incumbent reelection years, Gallup asked whether former Presidents Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush deserved reelection. The same question was asked about George W. Bush (October 2003) and Barack Obama (December 2011) late in the years before they sought reelection,” Gallup’s analysis said.
“Of these, the younger Bush (who won reelection) had the highest reelect figure, at 53%, while two incumbents who lost, Trump at 50% and the elder Bush at 49%, scored just below. Although Biden’s current rating ranks lowest among the readings for the past six presidents, his 38% is most similar to Clinton’s 44% and Obama’s 43%, both of whom won a second term,” it added.
Gallup said voters aren’t high on Congress, either, with just 24% feeling House and Senate members deserve reelection. But as is usually the case, they want their lawmakers reelected, at 55%.
The bottom line from the pollster:
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“Voters are not enthusiastic about returning most elected federal officials to office. Biden trails other incumbents at similar points in their presidencies, and voters are less likely than in other recent election years to say members of Congress deserve reelection.”
“While the numbers for Congress are unlikely to improve, based on historical patterns, Biden’s numbers could. He hopes to follow the paths of Clinton and Obama, whose electoral fortunes improved during their reelection years and saw them win second terms, rather than those of Trump and the elder George Bush, whose support for a second term deteriorated over the course of the election year.”