According to a Gallup Poll released Friday, Joe Biden is officially the least popular president in 70 years, with an approval rating of only 38.7 percent. The poll reveals that no first-term president with an approval rating this low has been reelected.
According to the pollsters, “With about six months remaining before Election Day, Biden stands in a weaker position than any prior incumbent.”
In comparison, President Trump had a 46.8 percent approval rating at the same point during in his presidency.
The approval ratings at this stage in their presidencies for the past 70 years are as follows:
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1956): 73.2%
Ronald Reagan (1984): 54.5%
Richard Nixon (1972): 53.7%
Bill Clinton (1996): 53.0%
George W. Bush (2004): 51.0%
Jimmy Carter (1980): 47.7%
Donald Trump (2020): 46.8%
Barack Obama (2012): 45.9%
George H.W. Bush (1992): 41.8%
Joe Biden (2024): 38.7%
BREAKING REPORT:⚠️ Biden emerges as the LEAST POPULAR president in the last 70 years..
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 28, 2024
Biden's 13th-Quarter Approval Average Lowest Historically. -GALLUP
JOE BIDEN: 38.7 percent job approval in his 13th quarter
JIMMY CARTER: 39.0 percent job approval in his 13th quarter https://t.co/e4sjARVuyP
The New York Post reported:
Even Nixon and Carter had higher ratings than Biden, with 53.7% and 47.7%, respectively, and Eisenhower had the highest rating at 72.3%, according to the poll.
The results of Gallup’s presidential approval polls, which the organization has compiled since the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began in 1952, have been strongly predictive of re-election success.
Historically, every incumbent in the past seven decades with an approval rating above 50% has won a second term. Only Barack Obama bucked the trend: his 2012 victory came despite a middling 46% approval six months ahead of that year’s general election.
No first-term president in Gallup’s history has returned to the White House with approval numbers as low as Biden’s — whose results this quarter ranked among the worst of the post-World War II era, in the bottom 12% of all presidential quarters going back to 1945.
