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Where is the floor for Joe Biden? We don’t yet know, at least not in the latest Civiqs tracking poll published yesterday. Paul Bedard caught the new low of 32% job approval rating in the Washington Examiner, and notes that disapproval is starting to look pretty bipartisan (via Instapundit):
The latest Civiqs approval rating hit 32%, with 56% disapproving of the president. Even Democrats are expressing frustration, with their approval rate at a low 69%, according to the data.
At this stage of his presidency, Donald Trump was in better shape though also underwater with voters in the same Civiqs survey, at 44% approval, 52% disapproval, numbers he rarely broke from.
Recent presidents have all had very temporary low approval ratings below 30%, according to Gallup, but they didn’t stay there. Biden’s trend line, however, has been steadily down in the Civiqs survey since May 20, 2021.
The chart below shows how steady the decline has been even as far back as March, when Biden got a mild bump upward in the post-SOTU period. Even that only lifted Biden to a high of 38% approval, but it’s literally been downhill from that poor showing ever since:
We’ll get to the demos on overall job approval shortly, but first let’s look at voter perceptions of the economic direction Biden has created. Biden and his White House team felt happy to give Biden personal credit when American voters felt a surge of optimism in the first few months of his administration, but ever since they’ve been flailing around look…
