Joe Biden‘s approval ratings remain stubbornly low even in the Democratic strongholds of New York and California, new polls have found.
A majority of New York state residents don’t rate the president’s job performance as “good,” according to a Siena College Research Institute study released on Tuesday. Just 25 percent of respondents considered Biden’s job performance “good” while 38 percent said it was “poor.”
The commander-in-chief’s national approval rating has been in negative territory since August 30 and several recent polls suggest there is not likely to be a rapid improvement as the U.S. heads toward
When Siena College, based in Loudonville, New York, asked respondents to rate the job President Biden is doing, 11 percent opted for “excellent.”
Another 25 percent said Biden was doing a “fair” job while just 1 percent said they didn’t know or had no opinion. The poll was conducted from February 14 to 17 among 803 registered voters in New York state and had an overall margin of error of +/-3.9 percent.
The poll also asked respondents whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Biden and recorded an even split, with 48 percent saying favorable and 48 percent unfavorable.
However, the unfavorable figure is the highest in Siena College’s monthly poll since the president came to office last year. January’s survey found that 52 percent of New York state residents had a favorable opinion of Biden, while 42 percent chose unfavorable.