House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has a theory about why President Joe Biden’s approval rating has been mired in the low 40’s.
Ahead of Biden’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday, Pelosi appeared on MSNBC. Host Andrea Mitchell noted, “The polls show Americans deeply pessimistic about the economy, inflation’s only going to rise with what’s happening on the energy front with this war.”
She asked, “What do you attribute to that? The decline in the president’s polls even how on Covid on how he’s handled it. What can he do to turn this around?”
“I think tonight’s going to be very important,” Pelosi began. “Because for the people to appreciate what the president has done, working together with the Congress, they have to know what it is.”
She continued, “President Lincoln said, ‘Public sentiment is everything with it you can accomplish almost everything, without it practically nothing.’ But people have to know.”
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RealClearPolitics’ average of Biden’s approval rating shows that 40.6% of Americans approve while 54.4% do not.
Aside from Trump, Biden’s approval rating is lower than any other recent president at the same point in their presidency.
An ABC News/The Washington Post poll released on Sunday found that just 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance while 55% disapprove.
That is a career-low for Biden.
The survey found that 43% think he can be trusted in a crisis, while 52% disagree. It also showed that 36% view him as a strong leader and 59% do not.
Meanwhile, 40% “think he has the mental sharpness it takes to serve effectively,” which is an 11 point decrease from the spring of 2020. Fifty-four percent do not believe he does.
Biden’s approval rating hovered above 50% through August. However, it declined in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and has not recovered since.
