In pro sports and politics, numbers matter, and Biden is now the least popular president in the last 70 years, falling below Jimmy Carter and even Richard Nixon!
According to a new Gallup Poll, Biden, 81, notched a dismal 38.7% job approval rating for the first quarter of 2024, three points lower than that of the one-term George H.W. Bush at the same point in his presidency.
“With about six months remaining before Election Day, Biden stands in a weaker position than any prior incumbent,” the pollsters concluded.
In contrast, former President Donald Trump, who is vying with Biden for a second White House term, had a 46.8% approval rating at this point in his presidency.
Even Nixon and Carter had higher ratings than Biden, with 53.7% and 47.7%, respectively, and Eisenhower had the highest rating at 73.2%, 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. Barack Obama was the only one to topple the trend: his 2012 victory came despite a middling 46% approval six months ahead of that year’s general election.
However, despite his former boss bucking the trend, 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.