Biden Second Most UNPOPULAR President in Modern U.S. History

Joe Biden is the second most unpopular president in modern U.S. history behind fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter, according to reports.

Yahoo News cited figures by liberal pollster FiveThirtyEight last week showing Biden’s approval hasn’t improved in nearly a year.

CNN: “At this point in his term, Joe Biden is the second most unpopular president in modern U.S. history; Jimmy Carter was the first.” pic.twitter.com/XI6jBMc2GJ

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From Yahoo News:

At this point in his term — about 910 days in — Joe Biden is the second-most-unpopular president in modern U.S. history. As of July 18, Biden’s average job-approval rating, according to the poll aggregators at FiveThirtyEight, is a paltry 39.1%; his average disapproval rating is 55.4%. That means his “net approval rating” is -16.3%, which is well “underwater,” as pollsters like to say.

Negative 16.3% is also really bad historically speaking. In fact, the only president with weaker numbers than Biden was Jimmy Carter, who hit -28.6% on day 910. At the time, just 29% of Americans approved of Carter’s performance on average, while 57.6% disapproved.

Typically with American presidents, their approval tends to improve as conditions improve in the country.

But that’s not happening in Biden’s economy.

“In the past, a president’s standing has tended to improve along with conditions in the country. Yet Biden’s numbers haven’t budged; since September 2022, his approval rating has remained mired around 40% while his disapproval rating has never broken out of the low to mid-50s,” Yahoo reported.

“The question is why. Is it something systemic — the way Americans are increasingly stuck in their own partisan media bubbles and unwilling to give presidents of the opposing party any credit? Is it the economy — the way certain indicators (such as real wages and the cost of services) have yet to fully recover even as the overall picture brightens?”

Meanwhile, recent polls show Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump defeating Biden in a 2024 head-to-head general election matchup.