Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Hits 37% Ahead Of White House Exit, Poll Finds President Made Progress In 1 Of 18 Areas

President Joe Biden received low approval ratings and scores on a four-year progress report in two separate voter polls ahead of his exit from the White House on Monday, Jan. 20.

Approval Rating Drops: Biden, who famously dropped out of the 2024 presidential election, will now leave the White House after one term and see the Republican party take over with Donald Trump as the next president.

A new Emerson College poll showed Biden will likely leave the White House with low approval ratings.

The poll, conducted from Jan. 10 through Jan. 11, found Biden had a 37% job approval rating and 52% disapproval rating as he nears his exit.

Here is the approval ratings by political party, with the remaining percent neutral or no rating:

• Democrats: 70% approval, 18% disapproval
• Republicans: 10% approval, 85% disapproval
• Independents: 33% approval, 50% disapproval

“President Biden closes his term with an approval rating 12 points lower than the first Emerson national poll in 2021 that measured the president’s approval, at 49%,” Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball said.

Since the 2021 poll, Biden’s approval rating dropped 16 points for Democrats, two points for Independents and 10 points for Republicans.

The new poll also found that 67% of voters think America is on the wrong track, with 33% saying the country is headed in the right direction. When Biden started his presidency in 2021, 54% of voters thought the country was on the wrong track and 46% thought the country was headed in the right direction.

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Biden Progress Report: A Gallup poll conducted in December had its results published this week. The poll found that Americans see minimal progress in 18 key areas under Biden’s leadership.

The poll asked voters to pick if the country made progress or lost ground during Biden’s four years in office and gives a net progress score that is made up of progress minus lost ground.

Across the 18 economic, national and international issues, Biden only had a positive net progress rating for one item, which was the situation for gay, lesbian and transgender people (+16 points).

The worst scoring topics among the 18 questions for Biden on a net rating score were:

• Federal debt: -56 points
• Immigration: -51 points
• Gap between the wealthy and less well-off: -50 points
• Taxes: -37 points
• Economy: -33 points

Biden received a score of over 50% saying the country lost ground in many of the topics, including federal debt (67%), immigration (64%), the gap between the wealthy and less well-off (60%), the economy (59%), the U.S. position in the world (58%) and crime (51%).

By political party, Biden saw a positive net rating in 14 of the 18 categories from Democratic voters and saw a positive net rating in 1 of the 18 categories from Republican voters.

Democrats gave Biden the best scores in the categories of energy (+51), nation’s infrastructure (+42) and trade relations with other countries (+42). Republicans gave Biden a positive rating on the situation for gay, lesbian and transgender people (+6), while climate change (-22) and race relations (-22) were the next highest-scoring categories.

The Gallup poll offers comparisons between past presidents with the new poll showing the progress the country had from Trump to Biden. Past polls have shown progress made from George W. Bush’s second term to Barack Obama and to Trump.

Biden had an average of -27 points for the 18 categories, compared to -12 points for Trump and -12 points for Obama.

Biden saw an improvement in only one of the 18 categories, compared to Trump having six categories improved from Obama’s presidency, and Obama having four categories improved from Bush’s second term.

Gallup notes that recent presidents have not scored high on the multi-point progress point, even Obama who had “relatively high job approval ratings” when he left office.

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