US President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has turned out to be the third-lowest for any president at 100 days in office since Harry Truman, Report informs referring to a joint survey by the Washington Post and ABC News.
All told, 52 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Biden’s work in office, lower than any president at 100 days in office since 1945, save Gerald Ford in 1974 (48 percent, after his unpopular pardon of Richard Nixon) and Donald Trump at 42 percent in 2017.
For the 14 presidents from Truman to Biden, the 100-day average is 66 percent.
The president wins broad approval for his pandemic relief package, 65 percent; for his handling of the pandemic, 64 percent; and for his proposal to raise corporate taxes, 58 percent. But support for his $2 trillion infrastructure package slips to 52 percent, as does his rating for handling the economy; and he has just 37 percent approval for his work on the immigration situation at the US-Mexico border.
Biden's approval peaks among those who were most apt to support him in the presidential election: Democrats (90 percent), liberals (86 percent) and Black people (82 percent). It's 12 points higher among college graduates than those without college degrees (60 percent versus 48 percent), and 8 points higher among women than men (56 percent versus 48 percent), again reflecting familiar patterns from November.