How Biden’s Approval Rating Got So Low

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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During his campaign for president and in his first year in office, Joe Biden tried to be all things to all people. But trying to govern on behalf of such a broad political coalition has left his administration with something of an identity crisis. In alarming figures for Democrats ahead of the midterms, Mr. Biden’s approval rating has reached the lowest level of his presidency, while 70 percent of Americans say that the country is on the wrong track. Guest: Alexander Burns, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:42.2	It's hard to believe that unless then just 12 months Joe Biden's popularity has absolutely
0:47.8	crumbled.
0:48.8	New polling shows that President Biden's approval rating has reached the lowest level of his
0:54.2	presidency.
0:55.2	President Biden's poll numbers are absolutely horrifically bad.
0:58.9	Just as his party gears up for midterm elections that rarely go well for the party in power.
1:06.0	What Biden's declining popularity is going to mean for the prospects for Democrats heading
1:11.0	into that election where there's a very good chance the Democrats are going to lose the
1:16.1	House, the Senate, possibly both.
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