The most popular president in history, ladies and gentlemen!
It's amazing that WaPo even covered this story.
They did try to couch Biden's free-fall though:
Biden's average approval rating stands at about 43 percent, which is a number Donald Trump didn't reach for the vast majority of his presidency. George W. Bush spent most of his second term below 40 percent, and Barack Obama was in the 40s for most of his tenure.
C'mon, WaPo! Give Biden credit where credit is due! He might not be as low as the Republican presidents you conveniently chose to compare him to (yet), but he's less than a year into office. He's got a long time to get the record for historic low approval ratings!
That said, however much Biden remains politically viable, there is often a difference between approval and a belief that the politician is the best option. And a poll from Marist College shows a significant disconnect on that front when it comes to Biden and the Democratic Party.
The NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll shows Democrats approve of Biden 85 percent to 10 percent — the kind of partisan loyalty we've come to expect from such polls, even when a president's fortunes are down. But the poll also asked a telling question about just how much Democrats would like to see Biden run again in 2024. When asked whether "Democrats have a better chance of winning the presidency in 2024 if Joe Biden is the party's nominee, or if someone else is the party's nominee," Democrats are split 41 percent to 41 percent.
When you include Democratic-leaning independents, the question actually cuts against Biden, with 36 percent saying he is the best option and 44 percent preferring "someone else." Twenty percent are unsure.
What's even worse is that most Dems believed the lie that Biden would "calm things down" after Trump, but the guy they thought would be our Houseplant-in-Chief is actually a "moderate" radical who has been involved each month in scandals and failed policies that are starting to really hurt Americans.
Still, the faithful want to take this poll as a W.
That said, it's pretty remarkable how much Democrats would like to turn the page on an incumbent president in 2024.
Yikes.
Even worse is this admission after WaPo talks about how a majority of conservatives are still allied behind Trump.
You can call that blind loyalty, but the fact that Biden doesn't command as much loyalty on this question is significant, given that he's the guy who just won less than a year ago.
Double yikes!
Just to put Biden out of his misery, WaPo then went and compared this scenario to Jimmy Carter – the president Biden has routinely been compared to due to foreign policy disasters, inflation, gas prices, and more.
About the best comparison is the last time we had a serious primary challenge to a sitting president. Before Ted Kennedy launched a campaign against Jimmy Carter in 1979, a New York Times-CBS News poll showed that just 23 percent of voters favored Carter in such a matchup. Six in 10 preferred either Kennedy (52 percent) or then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (8 percent). Carter still won the primary against Kennedy — rather easily — but lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Sorry, Joe!
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