Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed President Joe Biden’s low approval rating by blaming it on young people who don’t know “what’s been done.”
Clyburn appeared on GMA3: What You Need to Know on Friday to react to the most recent Ipsos-ABC poll that reported Biden’s approval rating is at 33%. The South Carolina representative expressed his pessimism about the data collected by ABC in its approval rating poll.
“These snapshots are taken at certain times, and when you are polling young people, and young people are not being told what’s been done, then that’s a problem,” Clyburn said. “So, I — I feel real good about where the campaign is. I think we’re beginning to break through simply because we have a complete reporting rather than the incomplete reporting that was being done before.”
ABC anchor DeMarco Morgan pushed back on Clyburn, pointing to a decreasing approval rating from black voters in particular. According to the poll, 65% of black respondents over the age of 50 approved of the president, while only 32% of younger black respondents approved.
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“I’m concerned with the reporting of this, yes. When I see those numbers, you know, my goodness, if there’s any truth to the numbers, which I don’t believe them because I talk to black people all the time,” Clyburn said. “So I don’t know where those numbers are coming from. But when you ask a question, and someone is basing their opinion on incomplete information or misinformation — and the other side seem to be pretty good at misinformation — we know what happened in the last election.”
Clyburn echoed Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), who is also campaigning on Biden’s behalf, in referring to this poll as an “outlier.” The 83-year-old representative has previously claimed to have expressed his concerns to the president regarding his campaign messaging earlier this month.