President Joe Biden’s approval rating slipped to 42 percent and many people in seven of the swing states identified during the 2020 election disapprove of his performance so far, according to a Civiqs poll.
Poll results from the Oakland, Calif.-based analytics firm released Tuesday included options for approval, disapproval or neither. According to the poll findings, Biden’s approval ratings in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas lagged at least 10 points behind his disapproval ratings.
In Arizona, approval ratings were at 42 percent and disapproval was at 52 percent; in Florida, approval was at 41 percent and disapproval was at 53 percent; in Georgia approval was at 39 percent and disapproval was at 53 percent; in Iowa approval was at 36 percent and disapproval was at 57 percent; in North Carolina approval was at 40 percent and disapproval was at 53 percent; in Pennsylvania approval was at 41 percent and disapproval was at 51 percent and in Texas was at just 34 percent while disapproval was at 58 percent.
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Only one of the 2020 battle ground states – New Hampshire – had a higher approval rating than disapproval rating for Biden at 49 percent compared to 44 percent. Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio and Wisconsin had higher disapproval ratings, but not 10 points higher than approval ratings.
Of these states, Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin in the 2020 election.
While people aged 18 to people aged 65 and older all had higher disapproval ratings for Biden, people with postgraduate degrees had higher approval ratings of him, as well as women, Democrats, Black people or African Americans and Hispanic/Latino poll respondents.
Earlier this month a Marist poll showed that Biden’s approval rating plummeted six points from August to September (49 percent to 43 percent). A chart provided by Civiqs shows that the president’s approval ratings went down following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan as U.S. troops pulled out of a two-decade occupation of the country.
Approval of how Biden has handled the COVID-19 pandemic has also taken a hit this summer, according to CNBC.
At 42 percent approval, Biden’s rating now hovers close to former President Donald Trump’s 40 percent approval rating as of January, according to Civiqs.
In an Emerson College poll released last Friday, respondents actually slightly favored the former Republican president in a hypothetical 2024 ballot test. As of Thursday, Trump has not announced if he will run for president in 2024.
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