At just 36% support, Biden slips to a record low in a new poll

President Biden’s poll numbers continue to go in the wrong directions.

The president’s approval rating stands at 36%, with disapproval at 53% in a new Quinnipiac University national poll. That’s the president’s lowest level of public support in Quinnipiac polling since taking over in the White House in January.

Biden’s approval edged down a point and his disapproval trickled up a point from Quinnipiac’s October survey.

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As expected, there’s a huge partisan divide, with Democrats by a 87%-7% margin giving the president a thumbs-up and Republicans disapproving by a 94%-4% margin. Only 29% of independent voters approve of how Biden’s handling his duties steering the country, with 56% disapproving.

According to a separate Marquette University Law School poll, 49% of Americans approved and 51% disapproved of the president. The poll was also released on Thursday. Biden’s approval in the survey, conducted Nov. 1-10, was down nine points from Marquette’s last poll, from July.

According to Real Clear Politics, Biden is currently at 41% approval and 53% desapproval in the average of all recent public opinion surveys.

In the Quinnipiac Poll, conducted Nov. 11-15, the president received his lowest grade to date on four key issues. Biden received 45% approval and 50% disapproval regarding the coronavirus epidemic; 41%-48% about climate change; 34%-59% about dealing with the economic environment and 33%-55% about handling foreign policies.

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“The President’s numbers are unsettling though slightly better than former President Trump’s approval at the same stage of his presidency,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy told Fox News.

“What may be most concerning is that overall ‘satisfaction’ is at an all-time low, and, significantly, 50% of those polled are ‘very dissatisfied,’” Malloy emphasized.

“That is a gut punch. Combined with the handling of the economy number that has dropped 5 points, from 39% approval and 35% respectively since October 6th,”

The poll also indicates the public’s split over whether the president cares about average Americans. And it suggests that a slight majority (52%-41%) say Biden’s not honest, and that a larger majority (57%-37%) say the president doesn’t have good leadership skills.

Biden’s approval rating hovered in the low to mid 50s during his first six months in the White House. But the president’s numbers started sagging in August in the wake of Biden’s much criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and following a surge in COVID cases this summer among mainly unvaccinated people due to the spread of the highly infectious delta variant as the nation continues to combat the coronavirus, the worst pandemic to strike the globe in a century. 

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The plunge in the president’s approval was also compounded by the most recent surge of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. along the southern border with Mexico. Also fueling frustrations with the president’s performance has been the rise this summer and autumn in consumer prices.

Sixty-one percent of those surveyed say the nation’s economy is getting worse, with seven in 10 saying increased prices for things such as food and gasoline have caused them to change their spending habits. 

Fifty-four percent of those questioned in the poll said they don’t think the Democratic Party cares about the needs and problems of people like them. A slightly higher 56% expressed the same concern about the Republican Party.

A small majority felt the Democratic Party had moved too far towards the left. Democrats in Congress scored a miserable 31%-59% approval/disapproval score. Republicans in Congress were worse, with a negative 25%-62% approval rating for job approval.

However, the poll found that 46% to 28% of respondents said they would like to see the Republican Party take control of the House of Representatives in midterm elections. 16% did not offer an opinion. And by a 46%-40% margin, those surveyed said they’d like to see the GOP win the Senate majority, with 15% not offering an opinion.

Democrats will be defending their razor-thin House and Senate majorities in next year’s midterms, when the entire 435-member House and one-third of 100-member Senate are up for grabs.

Quinnipiac University Poll polled 1,376 adults across the country and found an overall sampling error of +/- 2.6 percentage points.