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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Why Has Biden's Approval Rating Fallen?

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The crew discusses why Biden’s favorability is falling and how much Democrats should worry about it. They also check in on the results from two recent primary elections in Ohio and announce the launch of FiveThirtyEight’s Redistricting Tracker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nathaniel, give us your best boss an accent.

0:02.5

My name is Nathaniel Raikich, and today we launched the 538 Redistricting Traca, and we hope you'll check it out.

0:11.4

That was so subtle.

0:13.6

Well, you didn't give me much to work with.

0:15.4

What about even Nathaniel? Like Nathaniel?

0:18.3

That's a bit exaggerated, Galen.

0:20.0

538, trying to connect with our listeners and any accent.

0:32.5

Hello, and welcome to the 538 Politics Podcast. I'm Galen Drouk.

0:36.8

President Biden has so far had the most stable presidential approval rating in polling history.

0:42.7

He still holds that title, but in recent weeks his approval rating has begun to decline noticeably.

0:48.2

Almost three points since late July.

0:50.7

Today, we're going to take a look at why that might be happening.

0:53.7

We're also going to discuss the results of two primary elections in Ohio last week

0:57.7

that tested the appeal of an anti-establishment message in both parties.

1:02.0

The TLDR version is that Democratic primary voters rejected it, and Republican primary voters embraced it.

1:08.5

And we also have some very exciting news at the website.

1:11.8

Today, we launched our redistricting tracker for the process that's going to play out over the next six months or so.

1:18.6

We'll track every map drawing process and Jerry Mandarin.

1:22.2

We see in every state across the country.

1:24.3

So we're going to talk about what to watch for as the redistricting process gets underway.

1:29.2

And here with me to do all of that are editor-in-chief Nate Silver.

1:32.2

Hey, Nate. Hey, everybody.

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