President Joe Biden's average job approval rating across his third year in office languished at the lowest point of any U.S. president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, a Gallup poll released Thursday shows.
Biden's third year extended from Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024 during which time he had an average job approval rating of 39.8 percent, the Gallup poll reveals.
The Hill points out Biden, whose current job approval rating is 41 percent, fared the worst in polls of all presidents' ratings since Carter, whose third-year polling average was 37.4 percent before he went on to lose his subsequent reelection campaign.
Carter's third year in office included some historic low points, including the Iran hostage crisis, soaring gas prices, unemployment levels, and double-digit inflation.
Biden fared worse in his third year than former President Donald Trump, whose average job approval in his third year was 42 percent, the report notes.
A Reuters-Ipsos poll finds Trump with a six point lead on Biden, but there's a big catch: Trump only has 40% support, which, as a proud graduate of Track 2 math, I can tell you is not a majority. Or even close to one.
Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week.
The nationwide poll of 1,250 U.S. adults showed Trump leading Biden 40% to 34% with the rest unsure or planning to vote for someone else or no one. The poll had a margin of error of three percentage points.
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As Trump handily beat his sole remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley in New Hampshire on Tuesday, some 67% of respondents polled Monday through Wednesday said they were "tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new." Still, just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice.
If that 18% really doesn't vote, then Trump's 40% becomes, at the polls, close to 50%.
But that's a big if. Consider that Biden's poll numbers are particularly depressed right now because the left wants him to support Hamas' From the River to The Sea Jewish extermination policy.
Will they vote for Trump -- who imposed the so-called Muslim Travel Ban -- because of anger at Biden about his "support" for Israel?
Doubtful. A lot of this "I won't vote for Biden" stuff is just bluffing. Partisans say that early in general election season, but tend to "come home" by the fall.
Also, you can bet huge money that Reid Hoffman and George Soros and the Koch network will fund a "credible" Republican challenger to run as an independent for the express purpose of taking votes from Trump and allowing Biden to win states with 34-38% of the votes.
Who will it be?
Well, it will likely be Romney. He's a real cocksucker and will be proud to run a spoiler campaign to get his fren Biden re-elected.
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Trump's six-point lead held even when respondents were given the option of voting for third-party candidates, including anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with Trump drawing 36% support, Biden 30% and Kennedy 8%.
Right. But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.
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Overall, the poll gave numerous signs that voters are not happy with their choices.
Seventy percent of respondents - including about half of Democrats - agreed with a statement that Biden should not seek re-election. Fifty-six percent of people responding to the poll said Trump should not run, including about a third of Republicans.
Biden has been weighed down by the widespread view that at 81, already the oldest person ever to be U.S. president, he is too old for the job.
Three-quarters of poll respondents agreed with a statement that Biden was too old to work in government, while half said the same about Trump, who at 77 would also be among the oldest U.S. leaders ever if returned to the White House. Just over half of Democrats saw Biden as too old while a third of Republicans viewed Trump that way.
Haley, 52, is trying to marshal dissatisfaction to turn around her well-financed but flagging campaign.
"Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump," she said on Tuesday after her loss to Trump in New Hampshire. "The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election."
Speaking of: Liberal Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who was, I believe, Nikki Haley's biggest backer, has suspended his donations to her.
Hoffman has said he'll vote for President Joe Biden in November but backed Haley financially because his "first priority is to defeat Trump." The Democratic donor gave $250,000 to Stand For America Fund Inc. last year, a pro-Haley super PAC, the New York Times reported.
"Prior to the primaries, we made an investment in Gov. Haley because we saw that her performance in New Hampshire might give her a path to defeating Donald Trump," Hoffman's political philanthropy adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn told Fox News.
But Mehlhorn said the LinkedIn co-founder needs to see a "path to victory" before making another donation to the former United Nations ambassador.
The Koch network is standing by their neocon open-borders loose-in-the-snootch gal-- for now.
A conservative group that has spent millions backing Nikki Haley's presidential campaign says it isn't giving up on her -- but acknowledges she faces an "uphill" battle and that it's focusing on Senate races.
Why it matters: AFP Action, a super PAC that has pushed for a Republican alternative to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, has said it would "redouble" its efforts to back Senate candidates if it appeared Trump would be the Republican nominee.
The group -- part of the Americans for Prosperity network founded by billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother, David -- fears a Trump nomination would be a massive drag on other Republicans on the November ballot.