Tipsheet
Premium

New Poll Spells Bad News for Biden in 2024

This month, Townhall covered how voters in a battleground state indicated in a poll that they prefer former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in a 2024 rematch. And, Townhall reported how another poll recently showed that 47 percent trust Trump to fix the economy, while only 36 percent said this of Biden.

According to CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey released Wednesday, Trump defeats Biden by 4 points in a potential 2024 rematch. Forty-six percent of respondents said they would support Trump, while 42 percent said they’d support Biden. Twelve percent of respondents said they are undecided.

Additionally, the poll pointed out that Biden’s approval rating fell to 37 percent, with 58 percent of Americans saying they disapprove. This, according to the write-up, is the highest disapproval and second-lowest approval rating of Biden’s presidency.

Broken down, only 32 percent of Americans indicated that they approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, while 63 percent disapprove. Thirty-one percent of Americans approve of his handling of foreign policy, while 60 percent disapprove.

Among Democrats, specifically, 66 percent said they support Biden’s handling of foreign policy. Seventy-four percent support his handling of the economy. 

“You don’t get sub 40 approval ratings without losing large chunks of your base. And that’s what’s happening here,″ Micah Roberts, partner at Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican pollster for the survey, said in the write-up. He called the data “distressing numbers for a president facing reelection.”

Jay Campell, a partner at Hart Research Associates, the Democratic pollster for the survey, said the numbers among young people, black people and Latinos “are very troubling” for Biden. The survey of 1,001 Americans was conducted from Oct. 11-15 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.