The current survey had Biden's approval rating at 38%, down three percentage points from last month's Gallup poll.
It's also a 19-point plunge from Inauguration Month 2021, when the President had a favorability quotient of 57% with Gallup respondents. In the history of Gallup surveys, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump never scored lower than 42% with job approval — or four points higher than Biden’s current standing with likely American voters. The highest rating in Gallup history: George W. Bush at 75% in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Biden’s approval ratings have been moving downward for some time.
• | A recent CIVIQS survey had Biden being "underwater" — referring to a politician’s displeasure rating being higher than their approval numbers — in 48 states. |
• | According to Gallup, the president's favorability ratings began falling shortly after the United States pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021, paving the way for a Taliban takeover within the country. |
• | Gallup also pitted Biden's averages from the first six quarters against the last commanders in chief, operating that same timeline of evaluation. |
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For that analysis, Biden finished last in the survey of U.S. presidents, dating back to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Through six quarters, Biden has a composite average of less than 40%, according to Gallup.
From a political-affiliation perspective, Gallup said that 5% of Republicans, 31% of independents and 78% Democrats support Biden's presidential term of 18 months.
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And among independent voters, Biden has fallen two percentage points from last month.
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For the most recent Gallup poll, 1,013 adults were surveyed over the three-week period of July 5-26.
The survey's margin of error involves a plus/minus differential of four percentage points, along a confidence rate of 95%.
Biden's sixth quarter in office, spanning April 20 through July 19, recently ended. During this time, an average of 40% of Americans approved of the job he was doing as President. No President elected to his first term has had a lower sixth-quarter average than Biden, although Jimmy Carter's and Donald Trump's ratings were only slightly better, at 42%. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan also averaged below majority approval.
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Like almost every administrator since Dwight Eisenhower, Biden saw his job approval rating decline between his fifth (41%) and sixth quarters. Trump is one of the exceptions, as his sixth-quarter average of 42% was better than the 39% during his fifth quarter. As a result of these changes, the sixth quarter marks the first time Biden's quarterly average has been lower than Trump's was in the same quarter.