According to surveys, dissatisfaction with the president’s management is related to high inflation -the highest in four decades- and the direction taken by the escalation of tensions with Russia due to the conflict in Ukraine.
The poll, conducted by Reuters-Ipsos, showed that support for the head of the White House fell to a record low, although a Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research survey on March 17 gave him a 58 percent disapproval.
Biden is experiencing the worst moments of his presidency since he began to fall into crisis with voters in August 2021, the month of the chaotic withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan and a spike in deaths associated with the resurgence of the Covid-19.
With the mid-term elections approaching in November, the Oval Office occupant’s continued poor grades set off alarm among members of his party, threatened with losing their slim majorities in both houses of Congress.
Despite the fact that he proclaimed that he would achieve unity to build a good government, the vice president during the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017) has had several setbacks since he assumed the leadership of the country in January, 2021.
Biden, according to the Politifact website, has only kept 12 of the top 100 promises he made on the campaign trail.
To a large extent, the inability to carry out his agenda and solve temporary problems such as inflation, the immigration issue and the crisis in the supply chain comes from the evident internal divisions on the side of the blues.
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