Joe Biden didn’t really want to be the President. From the moment he stepped onto the 2020 electoral map, he appeared reluctant and tired. In fact, he was even given the nickname “Sleepy Joe” by then-President Donald Trump, as a way of reminding the country about his lack of enthusiasm and vigor.
And now, 9 months into his presidency, Biden’s abject failures are mounting, and the nation has taken notice.
President Biden’s popularity is maintaining its downward trend, as an average of recent polls by FiveThirtyEight finds that Biden’s approval rating hit a new low of 43.4 percent as of Friday, from a high of 55 percent in March.
At the same time, the president’s disapproval rating hit new heights, reaching 50.7 percent, from 36 percent in January.
Biden’s approval rating dipped under 50 percent in August as his administration faced rising coronavirus numbers, struggled to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan after a chaotic pullout that left 13 service members dead, and a slowdown in the job market.
Much of the angst has been derived from the Biden administration’s blatant disregard for the issues that plague the nation.
This was characterized most succinctly in the realm of the border crisis, in which Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked with overseeing some sort of solution to the longstanding humanitarian disaster. Instead of getting down to the nitty-gritty of it, Harris observed the issue from afar, suggesting that she would focus on climate change, suggesting that this was a “root cause” of illegal immigration.
