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Wrong track: Americans don't like direction of US as Biden leaves office with low approval
Wrong track: Americans don't like direction of US as Biden leaves office with low approval
Wrong track: Americans don't like direction of US as Biden leaves office with low approval

Published on: 01/14/2025

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(TNND) — President Joe Biden is heading out of office with a low job approval rating, while just a third of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction.

“His approval is 37%. I believe that is a near-historic low for him in our polling,” said Matt Taglia, the senior director of Emerson College Polling, which released a new national survey Tuesday.

“And yes, that does go hand in hand with the right-direction, wrong-track question,” he said.

Biden entered office four years ago with 49% approval in an Emerson survey.

His approval has dropped 12 points overall and 16 points among his Democratic base of supporters.

The survey conducted this month shows 70% of Democrats, 10% of Republicans, and just a third of independents approve of Biden’s job performance.

Meanwhile, more Americans also think the country is on the wrong track compared to four years ago.

Today, 67% think the country is on the wrong track, while 33% think the U.S. is headed in the right direction.

Four years ago, 46% thought the country was headed in the right direction.

The “wrong track” sentiment is shared across party lines, the Emerson survey showed.

Taglia said Biden’s approval “has hit the basement” in his final days in the White House.

Other surveys found similar opinions.

A new Gallup survey found over half, 54%, believe Biden will be remembered as a “below average” (17%) or “poor” (37%) president.

Biden’s negative-35 net rating, showing the scales tipped towards unfavorable opinions, is rivaled by only Richard Nixon (negative-42 net rating) in the new Gallup survey.

“I do think this is probably the nadir right here. This is the low point,” Seth McKee, a politics professor at Oklahoma State University, said last week of Biden’s popularity.

Both McKee and Todd Belt, the Political Management program director at George Washington University, said at the time that Biden might get more credit in the future for his policies, such as investing in American infrastructure, and for his disposition.

McKee said Americans might grow to appreciate that Biden wasn’t “a rabble-rouser” who stoked partisan fires.

Donald Trump will enter the White House in less than a week.

And Taglia said Trump might have a leg up on Biden entering office.

Emerson found 52% of voters have a favorable view of Trump.

Taglia said that’s a high favorability for Trump.

Plus, he said, Trump isn’t dealing with his political rival contesting the outcome of the election or with a once-in-a-century pandemic.

“There isn't this cloud” as Trump enters office, Taglia said.

Emerson also asked Americans which issues are most important to the country.

The economy, particularly inflation, topped the list at 36%.

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High prices certainly played a big role in the election, too.

Among voters who said inflation was the single most important factor in their vote, nearly two-thirds went for Trump, according to AP VoteCast surveys.

The Emerson poll found immigration (17%), health care (12%) and threats to democracy (10%) as the other top issues.

No more than about 5% of people in the Emerson survey cited education, crime, housing affordability, abortion access, or foreign policy as a top issue.

“We've seen a body of evidence that suggests that people don't like how things are right now, and most of it comes down to their views on the economy and inflation in particular,” Taglia said.

Health care is creeping up as an issue, Taglia said.

And concerns over threats to democracy seem to be fading with the election in the rearview mirror.

Emerson asked about a variety of other issues in the news lately.

There's pretty much broad agreement that the U.S. should not add any additional territories, as Trump talks about adding Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada.

“No demographic outright supports adding any sort of territory,” Taglia said.

Biden blocked a proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.

A plurality supports that decision, Taglia said.

Emerson got an array of partisan responses about the California wildfires.

About half of Democrats approve of how Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is handling the wildfires, while 61% of Republicans disapprove.

A majority of voters (58%) think climate change has contributed to the wildfires.

Young voters are most likely to believe climate change has contributed to the wildfires in California, at 74% among voters under 30. Eighty-five percent of Democrats think climate change has contributed to recent wildfires, as do just 36% of Republicans.

Taglia said there’s broad agreement that the personal lives of Trump’s cabinet picks are fair game for Senate confirmation hearings

And a plurality of Americans believed that Trump's cabinet picks will bring about real change in Washington.

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