'These Numbers Are Catastrophic': Joe Biden's Third-Year Approval Rating Lowest Since Jimmy Carter

On Friday, new polling from Gallup revealed that President Joe Biden is suffering the lowest approval rating of any president for his third year in office since Jimmy Carter. The report has made Democrats sound the alarm as the approval numbers are "catastrophic" for Biden's reelection chances this November.

According to the president's approval average for his third year in office, Biden has the support of only 39.8 percent of the American people. Biden's abysmal approval is just ahead of Jimmy Carter's third year in office from 1979 to 1980, with Carter's 37.4 percent average approval. Biden also had a worse third-year approval than Trump from 2019 to 2020, when he received an average of 42 percent approval.

President Carter's third year was defined by the Iran Hostage Crisis, massive inflation, and the oil crisis that led to gas shortages nationwide. President Biden's presidency has drawn repeated parallels with that of his Democrat predecessor, given multiple instances of $5 gas, high inflation, and multiple conflicts overseas.

President Biden's worsening approval began in 2021 with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, and his numbers have been unable to rally since then, per Gallup. His third year in office has been defined by the crisis at the southern border, the ongoing war in Ukraine, the continued hostilities between Israel and Gaza, a worsening economy, and various other problems impacting Americans. Biden's low approval rating comes largely from Republicans, only five percent of whom approve of the elderly Democrat's job running the country. In comparison, 83 percent of Democrats approve of the 46th president's performance.

"These numbers are catastrophic. If you think Biden can recover from numbers this low, you're completely delusional," wrote progressive commentator Cenk Uygur. "I've never seen anything like this, where one party is just giving away the election. If you don't understand Biden is going to lose, you don't understand politics."

According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, a hypothetical 2024 matchup between Biden and Trump sees the Republican up 3.8 percentage points on the 81-year-old Democrat. With Trump at 47.3 percent support compared to Biden's 43.5 percent, Democrats are facing the largest disparity between the two candidates since Biden took office in 2021. Given that President Trump has the Republican nomination locked up, his path forward to retake the White House seems increasingly optimistic. Biden's disastrous presidency has resulted in Americans suffering and turning on him in large numbers as hopes for Trump to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue spread across the country.

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