Fox News’s polling has long been some of President Biden’s best, showing his approval ratings staying in the mid- to high 40s in recent months, even as others showed it declining further.
But its latest release reinforces something we’ve seen in plenty of other polling: that Biden’s remaining support, such as it exists, is rather soft.
The Fox poll shows 47 percent of people continue to approve of Biden’s performance as president, but significantly fewer than that say they would either definitely or probably vote to reelect him. Just 36 percent say that, while 6 in 10 say they at least lean against voting for him in 2024.
Much like waning presidential approval ratings, that isn’t too far afield from the new political normal. In April 2017 and January 2018, Donald Trump’s “reelect” numbers were already down to 36 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Barack Obama’s worst number on this was 39 percent in September 2010.
In Biden’s case, though, the 60 percent who say they would probably vote for someone else is a bigger number than any poll testing either Trump or Obama on the same question. And Biden’s negative-24-point spread is worse than Trump’s worst — negative-21.