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54% disapprove of Biden, 71% say US heading in wrong direction: poll
More than 50 percent of Americans disapprove of President Biden’s job performance and 71 percent believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction, according to a poll released Sunday.
The president’s job approval ratings have been tanking since April, when 52 percent gave him a thumbs up and 39 percent disapproved, according to an NBC News poll.
The latest survey, which follows the track of other polls, showed Biden underwater, with 54 percent disapproving and 42 percent approving.
The paltry poll numbers come just days before a crucial gubernatorial contest in Virginia pitting Democrat Terry McAuliffe against Republican Glenn Youngkin, a race that’s seen as a bellwether for next year’s midterms.
“Democrats face a country whose opinion of President Biden has turned sharply to the negative since April,” said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies.
“The promise of the Biden presidency — knowledge, competence and stability in tough times — have all been called into question,” Horwitt added.
Biden’s numbers are also falling over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.
In April, 69 percent approved and 27 percent disapproved of his handling of COVID, but the recent poll shows that approval rate has fallen to 51 percent and the disapproval rate has climbed to 47 percent.
On the economy, Americans gave him a 52 percent approval rating in April and a 43 percent disapproval rating.
But that has now fallen to 40 percent approval and risen to 57 percent disapproval.
Among the 71 percent of Americans who say the country is heading in the wrong direction are 48 percent of Democrats, 93 percent of Republicans and 70 percent of independents.
“When you see a wrong track of 71 percent, it is a flashing red light,” McInturff said. “These folks are telling us that this is not going well.”
Asked about the 2022 midterm elections, 47 percent said they favor a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 45 percent opt for Republican control — a rate basically unchanged from August.
Republicans hold double-digit advantages over Democrats on border security (27 percentage points), inflation (24 points), crime (22 points), and the economy (18 points).
Democrats have double-digit leads on climate change (24 points), coronavirus (12 points), and abortion (10 points).
The poll surveyed 1,000 adults between Oct. 23-26
It has a plus/minus 3.1 percentage points margin of error.
Why Celebrities Disapprove of William Shatner’s Blue Origin Space Ride
Star Trek star William Shatner made history Wednesday, becoming the oldest person to travel to space aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. The 90-year-old actor, along with three Blue Origin employees, blasted off from a launch pad in west Texas to 66 miles in the sky in a space ride that lasted about ten minutes.
Shatner’s accomplishment has drawn unexpected criticism from his celebrity circle, from Hollywood to Buckingham Palace.
In an interview with BBC aired Thursday, Prince William said he has “absolutely no interest” in going to space, largely because there’s a “fundamental question” over the carbon cost of space flights.
“We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live,” the Duke of Cambridge told BBC Newscast’s Adam Fleming when asked what he thought of the ongoing billionaire space race and the hype of space tourism.
“It really is quite crucial to be focusing on this [planet] rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future,” the duke added.
Prince William gave the interview ahead of the first Earthshot Prize, named in reference to the “moonshot” ambition of 1960s America. The prize is set up to reward solutions to climate change and environmental issues.
Shatner also got roasted by his Star Trek co-star George Takei, a longtime foe, who called his former on-screen captain an “unfit guinea pig” for space tourism.
“He’s boldly going where other people have gone before,” Takei, 84, told Page Six on Wednesday after the Blue Origin crew landed. “So 90 years old is going to show a great deal more on the wear and tear on the human body, so he’ll be a good specimen to study. Although he’s not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he’ll be a specimen that’s unfit!”
Shatner shot back right away, Page Six reported, claiming that “there’s a psychosis there … There must be something else inside George that is festering, and it makes him unhappy that he takes it out on me…I feel nothing but pity for him.”
He also responded to Prince William’s disapproval of space tourism in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, saying that the prince “got the wrong idea.”
“The idea here is not to go, ‘Yeah, look at me. I’m in space,’” Shatner said. “The prince is missing the point. The point is these are the baby steps to show people [that] it’s very practical. You can send somebody like me up into space.”
