The
two-day national poll found that 38% of Americans approve of
Biden's job performance.
While Biden's approval rating hit 41% last week, it has been
mostly below 40% since mid-June despite a string of Democratic
legislative victories that Biden's allies hope will help them
defend their narrow congressional majorities in November.
Democrats are expected to lose control of the U.S. House of
Representatives in November and possibly the Senate as well.
Even with control only of the House, Republicans would be able
to bring Biden's legislative agenda to a halt and launch
potentially politically damaging investigations.
Biden's overall approval rating has been below 50% for over a
year as Americans have grappled with high rates of inflation and
an economy scarred by the COVID-19 health crisis. Biden's lowest
ratings of 36% - in four weekly polls in May, June and July -
rivaled the lows of his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose
popularity bottomed out at 33% in December 2017.
When poll respondents this week were asked to rank the nation's
biggest problems, the economy topped concerns, with a third of
Republicans and a quarter of Democrats pointing to it as the top
issue.
For Republicans, the next most pressing problems were
immigration and crime, each of which topped concerns for about
one in 10 Republicans.
Among Democrats, about one in eight saw the environment as the
top issue, and about one in 10 pointed to the end of national
abortion rights. Reuters/Ipsos this week added abortion rights
to a list of concerns for Americans to rank, a list that also
includes immigration and healthcare, as the issue has attracted
more attention since a June U.S. Supreme Court decision ending
the nationwide constitutional right to abortion.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted online in English
throughout the United States, gathered responses from 1,005
adults, including 449 Democrats and 357 Republicans. It has a
credibility interval - a measure of precision - of four
percentage points.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Rosalba
O'Brien)
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