Morning Consult Poll: Biden Approval Crashes to 39% While Gas and Inflation Soar

Do you know what will turn this sinking Biden ship around? A primetime special featuring hearings from the Jan. 6 congressional committee. Just kidding, they’ll be a total flop and make it worse.

With gas prices still soaring and Biden still as feckless as ever, it’s no wonder his approval and disapproval numbers are reaching new records (in a bad way) as we head into the summer months.

According to Morning Consult, Biden’s most recent numbers have gone from awful to genuinely awful in just a few weeks. While the president complains that he’s not getting favorable news coverage on economic stats that no one cares about right now, the real stats like inflation and gas prices are driving his numbers into the ground:

The latest survey found that 58% of voters disapprove of Biden’s job performance and 39% approve. It marks the 46th president’s lowest approval rating and highest disapproval rating in 62 weekly surveys conducted since he took office in January 2021.

For comparison, Biden’s latest numbers are worse than Donald Trump’s were at this time four years ago, when 45% approved and 52% disapproved of the former president.

How much that must burn up Joe Biden to be putting up approval numbers lower than Donald Trump? It seems clear from the 2020 campaign and onward that Biden despises Trump as an outsider and someone who, in Biden’s opinion, had no business being president. It was time for the adults to take charge, and yet, here we are with economic calamity.

Here’s the chart since January of 2021 when Biden took office. Ever since Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan where 13 U.S. troops were killed in a bombing at Kabul airport, he hasn’t recovered:

It seems like after that point, America realized Biden wasn’t the savior he was sold as. He was actually still Joe Biden, the aloof and buffoonish Senator from Delaware who had a problem keeping his hands to himself and typically was wrong about every foreign policy matter since the start of his career.

This presidency is flailing now for anything that will stick and change the perception of inaction and incompetence. The problem, at this point, is that Biden is far behind the issues facing the country making it hard to dig out from a hole that keeps getting deeper.

Most of these issues, like energy production, for example, were made worse the second Biden took office when he started slashing leases, canceling pipelines, and telling the oil and gas industry to pound sand. That was strike one which sent us down the road toward $5 gas.

On inflation, Biden was warned over and over again by economists on his own side about the dangers of ignoring the problem. It was “transitory,” the Biden administration kept saying, except now it’s not, and it never was.

So what’s a President to do stuck at this point with a White House staff in shambles pointing fingers at each other? The product isn’t a great sell, so putting Biden out in public will only make it worse. Keeping him locked up quiet doesn’t work either. There is no easy way out for Biden except an exit, stage left.