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Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the no-chit chat podcast. We like to get right into it

and what we're going to get into today is Joe Biden's job approval rating. As in, it's better,

but it's still bad. It's really bad, actually. Now, the president's job approval rating

hit a low point, 36.8 percent, low point, and the real clear politics average of polls on July 21st.

Okay, at the same time, his disapproval rating hit a high point, 57.5 percent.

Now, both of these are really unhappy records for Biden, and they're also records for any other

president. At that point, in his term, I mean, that's how low Biden sank, 36.8 percent,

and the real clear politics average of polls. Today, Biden's job approval rating is 42.2 percent

in the same average of polls. It's up nearly five and a half points from his low point.

Disproval rating 54.8 percent down little less from its high. Now, the improvement in Biden's

approval rating is pretty significant. I mean, five and a half points is just not nothing.

The problem, the problem is even that with that improvement, Biden is still around 42 percent,

and that for Democrats approaching the midterms is not good news. So, around this time in 2018,

first couple of weeks of September, in 2018, President Donald Trump was approaching his first,

and only midterm elections. Gallup, the polling organization, publishes an article

outlined midterm seat loss averages 37 for unpopular president. So, Jeffrey Jones of Gallup's

writes, of Gallup writes the following. The president's party almost always suffers a net loss

of house seats in midterm elections. I mean, right there, I mean, no matter what the job

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