CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten found that President Joe Biden is exiting office with the lowest approval rating of “any president on record” during a Sunday segment.
Biden’s job approval rating currently stands at an average of 38% at the end of his first term, which is the lowest recorded percentage of any president who did not seek or win reelection, according to Enten’s aggregate polling. The president’s rating is one point lower than President-elect Donald Trump’s average at the time that he exited his first term in January 2021.
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“I’m just looking amongst those who lost or didn’t run for reelection, you don’t have to be a mathematical genius to see which is the lowest number on your screen right now. In an average of polls, Joe Biden is at 38%. He’s actually lower than Donald Trump was at the end of his first term. Remember, at the end of his first term, everyone was saying Donald Trump’s political career [was] over. Joe Biden’s is even lower than Trump’s was, just a point. It’s lower than Jimmy Carter who was at 44% at the end of his presidency, [and he’s] not even close to George H.W. Bush, who was at 56%, so a nice rebound.”
“So the bottomline is this, Joe Biden came in to end the Donald Trump reign in this country, end Donald Trump’s political career. And all that’s ended up happening is Joe Biden has managed to end up at a lower approval rating at the end of his first term than any president on record,” Enten continued.
A quarter of Americans consider Biden to be a “good” or “great president,” while 36% and 52% said the same about Trump and former President Barack Obama at the end of their first terms, Enten said, citing an Associated Press/National Opinion Research Center (NORC) poll.
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“Look at how low Joe Biden is, my goodness gracious, you can’t really get lower than 25% in our polarized era because the bottomline is this, there’s gonna be a bunch of Democrats who would say that Biden is a good or great president no matter what he did, yet it’s only a quarter of the country who believes that Joe Biden was a good or great president,” Enten continued. “It is the lowest number since AP/NORC started tracking this back at the end of Barack Obama’s second term. The bottomline is, Joe Biden goes out a very unpopular man at the end of a 50+ year political career.”
While Biden’s approval ratings have hit a record low, Trump’s have risen from 38% to 47% since January 2021, the highest average he has ever received, Enten said, citing his own data. A growing number of Americans also believe Trump will be a successful president in his upcoming term, with 56% currently believing he will be a good president.
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Biden’s average approval rating throughout his entire term stood at 42%, according to data provided by Gallup. His highest approval rating averaged at 57% through Jan. 21 to Feb. 2, 2021, and throughout April 2021, while his lowest stood at 36% in July. The average approval ratings of U.S. presidents from 1938 to 2024 is 52%, according to Gallup.
The 46th president’s approval ratings largely dipped following the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, where a a suicide explosion killed 13 U.S. service members outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Voters largely trusted Trump over Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the two key issues facing voters during the 2024 election, the economy and immigration. Inflation, a weak spot for the Biden presidency, dropped below 3% in July for the first time in more than two years.
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First published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.