PNN – The results of a new survey showed that Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, has the lowest popularity among his peers in the last 70 years at this point in their presidency.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the New York Post newspaper wrote: Biden is the most unpopular commander-in-chief at this stage of his presidency among the presidents of the past 70 years in the United States, and even his popularity is lower than Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, former presidents of the United States; An issue that jeopardizes the possibility of him winning another election.
The results of the Gallup poll showed: Biden, who is 81 years old, was only approved by 38.7% of voters in terms of job acceptability in the first three months of 2024, which is three percentage points lower than President George H. W. Bush at the same point in his presidency.
The polls concluded that with only 6 months left until the election day in the United States, Biden is in a weaker position among the presidents before him.
These results showed: President Donald Trump, the predecessor of Biden, who is competing with the current president of the United States for the second term of the White House, had a popularity rating of 46.8% at this point in his tenure in the White House.
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Based on these results, Nixon and Carter also had a higher rating than Biden. Based on these results, Nixon with 53.7%, Carter with 47.7%, and even Dwight Eisenhower (the 34th President of the United States) with 73.2%, were more popular than Biden at the same point in their presidency.
The New York Post wrote: The results of Gallup polls about the popularity of American presidents, which its organizers have collected since Eisenhower’s presidency in 1952, strongly predict their success in re-election.
Historically, every US president in the past 7 decades has won a second term with a popularity rating above 50%. Only Barack Obama, the former Democratic President of the United States, went against this trend. Obama’s victory in 2012 was when he had only 46% job approval in the 6 months remaining before the presidency that year.
The New York Post wrote that Biden’s popularity has been below 45% since the first year of his presidency, at the same time as high inflation, the worsening of the border crisis and the disastrous withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan.
Trump ahead of Biden in swing states
Newsweek also wrote: Average polls show that if the 2024 election is held today, Trump can defeat Biden in the general and electoral college votes.
According to this report, although Biden is in a better position in the state and national polls, it seems that the current Democratic President of the United States is facing a difficult battle with his Republican rival. Trump and Biden are two very different contenders, and polls show that both are unpopular with the majority of the public.
FiveThirty-Eight’s national average polls show Trump with 41.7% ahead of Biden with 40.9%, which shows a 0.8% advantage for the former US president.
The average polls of the Rail Clear Institute, updated on April 22, indicate a 0.3 percentage point lead for Trump with 44.8 percent of the vote against Biden with 44.5 percent.
In general, political analysts in America consider 7 states as critical battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election. These states include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Trump and Biden are expected to spend a significant portion of their campaign and campaign spending in these states.