News Week
President Joe Biden‘s approval rating shows no sign of rebounding in the near future after a slide that has now lasted for three weeks following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The latest poll from Gallup shows Biden’s approval is now at a new low of just 43 percent, while 53 percent now disapprove of him. That’s the first time a majority of respondents in a Gallup poll have disapproved of the president.
Poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which tracks Biden’s popularity based on analysis of a wide range of polls and its own system of pollster ratings, gave Biden an average disapproval of 49 percent on September 22.
FiveThirtyEight’s analysis took into account the most recent Gallup poll, conducted between September 1 and September 17.
According to the poll tracker, Biden’s approval entered negative territory on August 30—one day before the final deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The president’s disapproval has outstripped his approval since August 30 and there is currently no indication that the trend is set to change.
Biden enjoyed 46.3 percent approval in FiveThirtyEight’s tracker on September 22. This is down from his highest approval rating of 55 percent on January 25 and March 23, during what is often considered a new president’s honeymoon period.
Gallup’s poll found that Biden’s approval has fallen 14 points since he took office eight months ago. That poll was conducted with a random sample of 1,005 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of 4 percent.
