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The Byron York Show

How Low Can Joe Go?

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Remember just a few weeks ago, when President Joe Biden's supporters hoped he would enjoy a bounce in job approval ratings after his State of the Union address? They scoured each new poll for evidence of even a tiny uptick. A couple of polls appeared to show just a little improvement β€” maybe it was happening! β€” and then Biden settled back down into approval ratings in the low 40% range.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

0:11.5

We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is what you might

0:15.1

call, how low can Joe go?

0:19.8

The President's job approval ratings.

0:21.6

That's what we're going to be talking about today, because they're in the news.

0:24.8

Again, remember a few weeks ago, President Biden supporters were hoping that he would

0:29.9

enjoy a bounce in job approval ratings after his State of the Union address.

0:35.6

They scoured every new poll, looking, looking for new evidence of even a tiny uptick, and

0:41.8

a couple of polls appeared to show a little bit of improvement.

0:46.1

Maybe it was happening, and then Biden settled back down into what has become the norm for

0:52.0

him, the low 40% job approval range.

0:55.5

Now, that's until now.

0:57.4

Now in the last three polls in the Real Clear Politics average of polls, Biden's job approval

1:02.9

rating is 40%, 38%, and 35%.

1:07.6

Now there are some optimistic outliers.

1:10.7

There's one poll from the economist that shows his job approval at 46%.

1:16.0

So those are keeping Biden at his current Real Clear Politics average of 40.4%.

1:21.6

But the President's trend, again, as it did all of last year, seems downward.

1:27.8

Now, that has sent some Democrats into a new round of panic.

1:32.2

It's not hard to do that these days, they're pretty nervous.

1:36.2

They're fearing that a presidential job approval rating in the high 30s would surely mean

1:42.1

a Republican House and a Republican Senate in this November's midterm elections.

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