How Joe Biden’s approval rating plunged to a new low

The US president is far less popular than Barack Obama was at the same stage in his presidency.

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Nine months into his term as US president, Joe Biden’s approval rating has slumped to a new low. The president’s approval rating stands at just 43 per cent according to the US website FiveThirtyEight, which aggregates data from all polls.

The president’s approval 288 days after taking office is significantly lower than that of his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at the same stage in their presidencies. According to FiveThirtyEight’s analysis, Donald Trump and Gerald Ford were the only presidents since the Second World War with lower approval ratings than Biden at this point in their tenures. Neither went on to serve a second term.