President Joe Biden’s average approval rating is currently at its lowest of his entire time in office despite a positive reaction to his recent State of the Union address.
Biden’s approval rating currently stands at 37.4 percent, the lowest since he recorded an average of 37.6 percent in December 2023, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight’s national average calculations.
Biden’s disapproval rating is at 56.5 percent, giving the president a net disapproval score of 19.2 points—both of which are record markers of disapproval for the president.
The average ratings come amid long-standing concerns Biden has faced about his struggling poll numbers and a lack of enthusiasm for the 81-year-old’s reelection bid. On Tuesday night, both Biden and Donald Trump were confirmed as the Democratic and Republican nominees for the 2024 election respectively, setting up a rematch of the 2020 race.
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Biden’s low approval rating comes close on the heels of recent polls suggesting that potential voters were encouraged by the president’s State of the Union address on March 7.
During the speech, Biden hit out at Trump for trying to win the November election by running on a campaign of “hate, anger, revenge, retribution” while also slamming the “insurrectionists” who “stormed this very Capitol and placed a dagger to the throat of American democracy” during the January 6 attack.
Biden listed his accomplishments in office, including stating the U.S. economy rose from being “on the brink” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to one which is now “literally the envy of the world.”
Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York, said Biden gave “one hell of a speech” on March 7.
“President Biden literally said ‘hell’ more often than I could count. He was a bulldog in this SOTU. He was combative, funny, and aggressive. It also was the most pro-union speech I’ve ever heard from a U.S. president,” Brown previously told Newsweek.
“This clearly was the official launch of his reelection campaign, and a good one at that.”
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According to a CNN poll, 65 percent of those who watched the State of the Union address had a positive reaction to Biden’s speech, including 35 percent who reacted “very positively” to Biden’s remarks.
Elsewhere, a YouGov survey conducted on March 8 found that 30 percent of Americans believe that people will have a more positive view of Biden following his SOTU speech, compared to 23 percent who believe people would view the president in a more negative light, and 26 percent saying it wouldn’t change people’s views at all.
A Harris Insights & Analytics survey conducted after the SOTU address showed that Biden’s overall approval rating was 37 percent.
When the results were broken down to just those who watched Biden’s speech, support for the president increased to 43 percent.
The poll also shows Trump beating Biden by 5 points in a head-to-head presidential election race (46 to 41 percent) and by 2 points between those who watched the SOTU address (47 to 45 percent).
