Support for President Biden fell below 50 percent, according to a new poll released Sunday, which found he was underwater with Americans for his chaotic handling of the evacuation of U.S. citizens from ‘Afghanistan and the increase in COVID cases.
49 percent of the job approval rating and 48 percent disapproval in the NBC News poll is a drastic drop from the 53 percent approval and 39 percent disapproval it received in the ‘survey in April.
“The April promise has brought with it the danger of August,” said Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, which conducted the poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.
Separately, according to the survey, 60 percent of respondents disapprove of Biden’s handling of Afghanistan, while 25 percent approve of it.
At COVID, 53 percent approve of it and 44 percent disapprove of it.
But that’s a drop since April, when 69% approved and 27% disapproved of their coronavirus response.
The NBC News poll tracks recent polls that allowed Biden approval numbers to lag behind.
An average of RealClearPolitics ’national polls places Biden’s approval rating at 47.8 percent and Biden’s disapproval rating at 48.6 percent.
And a quick Reuters / Ipsos poll last weekend when the Taliban stormed Kabul and seized Afghanistan showed Biden’s job approval rating fell 7 percentage points, to the highest level. under his presidency.
46 percent of Americans approved of their action.
Two days earlier, his pass rating was 53 percent.
On Friday, a Rasmussen Reports poll found that less than 40% of likely voters believe Biden is holding the presidency.
Only 39% said they thought Biden was “doing the job of president” and 51% said they believed “others are making decisions” for him.
And 52% said they did not trust the 78-year-old commander-in-chief to be physically and mentally fit, while 46% said he was “confident.”
Polls were conducted as images of Afghanistan show chaos near Hamid Karzai International Airport on the outskirts of Kabul and Americans and Afghans at risk of Taliban retaliation are harassed, threatened and sometimes hit by insurgent fighters as they try to make their way. via numerical checkpoints to get to the airport.