With less than six months until the presidential election, President Joe Biden’s average job approval rating is 38.7% — making it the lowest 13th quarter approval rating of all nine past presidents in their first term in office.
Biden’s most recent quarterly ranking puts him at the bottom 12% of all presidential approval rankings since 1945.
In 2020, Biden clinched victory by narrowly winning in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. However, analysis by NPR’s Domenico Montanaro found that it was “just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College.”
Latest polling shows Biden trailing Donald Trump in five of six battleground states. Another poll found Trump leading Biden in all seven swing states by 48% to 44%. Even when including third party candidates Robert F Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West, Trump still held a four point lead over Biden.
While Trump is juggling his criminal court cases and campaigning, Biden is attempting to soothe people’s concerns about the economy, his cognitive ability, and th …