In his second year in the White House, President Joe Biden's job approval ratings have fallen, with just 40% of Americans approving of the job he is doing, according to a new NBC News survey.
Biden has seen low ratings in his presidency.
A large majority of Americans continue to say that the United States is headed in the wrong direction, according to a poll.
The number of people who think the country is on the wrong track is less than the number who think it is.
As Biden leads a Western coalition in support of the resistance to the invasion by Russia, Americans are dealing with an inflation rate not seen since the 1980s, and as the U.S. enters the third full year of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategy told NBC News that the survey he and Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt conducted says that President Biden and the Democrats are headed for a catastrophic election.
Over four days last week, the poll surveyed 1,000 adults, 790 of whom were registered voters. The margin of error is 3.1%.
Losing seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate in mid-term elections is a rule for the political party of incumbent presidents. 35 Senate seats are at stake, while all 435 House seats are at stake.
Democrats have a narrow majority in the House.
When all 48 Democrats and the two independent senators who caucus with them vote as a bloc against the 50 GOP senators, the Democrats will have control of the Senate.
After defeating Donald Trump in the 2020 election, Biden's public approval plummeted.
Trump has said he will seek the Republican presidential nomination again.
Biden said Thursday he would be very fortunate to have Trump as an opponent in the next election, a jibe that might be justified by Trump's own relatively high approval ratings.
The incumbent is in a public approval hole.
Biden had an approval rating of over 50% among all Americans and over 50% among registered voters in a March 2021 NBC News poll. 39% of all Americans and 43% of registered voters disapproved of his performance.
In the new poll, just 41% of registered voters approved of Biden's performance.
Only 16% of registered voters said they approved of the job Biden was doing.
When Biden took office, just 21% of Americans thought the U.S. was headed in the right direction.
34% of people said the country was moving in the right direction, and 56% said the opposite.
Only 22% of Americans think the U.S. is headed in the right direction, a percentage that has not changed since October.
Almost 40% of Americans said they had very positive or somewhat positive feelings about Biden. A number of people said they had negative feelings for him.
A total of 36% of people said they had positive feelings for Trump. Half of the people had negative feelings for the former president.
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