New Year’s disillusion: Joe Biden on track to end 2023 with inglorious honor

President Joe Biden will be ending 2023 with a near-record low approval rating as he heads into 2024 with the hope of being reelected in November.

Biden posted an approval rating of 39% in December, according to data published Friday by Gallup. While the number is up from 37% in October and November, it marks a decline since the beginning of 2023 and a larger scale reduction since he took office in 2021.

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However, the number is lower than each of the last seven presidents at the same point in their first terms.

Biden entered office in January 2021 with a 57% approval rating, 18 points higher than his current mark. By the beginning of 2023, his rating had already fallen to 41% but continued to decline throughout his third year, first hitting a low of 37% in April. Biden’s rating briefly rebounded in the months following before once again dipping.

The president’s approval rating has declined most starkly among independents, who are expected to decide the 2024 election, especially if it is a rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump. At the start of his term, Biden was approved by more than half of independents at 61%. But now, just 34% of the group approve of his job as president.

Biden’s approval rating among independents dipped to a low of 27% in November before rebounding slightly.

The president started his term with near-full approval from Democrats at 98%. Three years in, he’s fallen 20 points with his core constituency.

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According to Gallup, Biden’s current rating is a historical low. The president boasts the lowest approval rating at this point during his first term of any of the last seven presidents. Per Gallup, former President Barack Obama saw 43% approval at this point, while Trump had 45% at the same time. Both were similarly heading into a reelection year.

Each of the other past seven presidents had ratings higher than 50%.