New national research indicates that President Joe Biden’s approval rating fell during his first month at the White House.
Biden has 51% approval rating in a Monmouth University poll released on Wednesday. This is slightly less than the 54% of Americans who gave a positive signal to the new president at the end of January, days after his inauguration.
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Most notable is the increase in Biden’s disapproval rate – from 30% at the end of January to 42% now. The increase comes as more people form an opinion about Biden – with those who say they “have no opinion” about the president dropping from 16% just after his inauguration to 8% now.
“It’s probably not surprising that Biden’s honeymoon period ended quickly,” said Monmouth University Research Institute director Patrick Murray. But Murray noted that the president maintains a positive net assessment in the new survey, which ran from February 25 to March 1.
An average of all the latest national polls that measured Biden’s approval rating – compiled by Real Clear Politics – puts the president’s numbers at 55% approval and 40% disapproval.
Ninety-one percent of Democrats polled in the Monmouth poll approve of Biden’s performance – largely unchanged since January. Eight out of 10 Republicans disapprove, a 10-point jump from the previous month. The independents are divided – 43% approve and 48% disapprove. This is a change from January, when Biden had a pass / fail rate of 47% -30% with independents.
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Monmouth’s research also points to a drop in congressional approval.
Three out of ten respondents approve the work that Congress is doing, up from 35% a month ago. Disapproval has jumped from 51% in January to 59% now. But Monmouth notes that the January results “were a historic record in eight years of national Monmouth surveys. Although current ratings have declined, they remain at the upper end of the range they have been floating in since 2013”.
The survey also indicates that more than six out of ten Americans support the $ 1.9 trillion COVID stimulus and relief project being considered by Congress.
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Monmouth’s research used live phone operators to question 802 adults across the country. The general sampling error of the survey is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.