There is unarguably a strong push from the Republicans to beat Democrats’ narrow majorities in the House and Senate and claim key governorships ahead of the 2024 presidential election….reports Asian Lite News
Former President Barack Obama is all set for a rally-spree across battleground states with one aim in mind which he couldn’t accomplish during his 8-year tenure: to help Democrats succeed in midterms.
With his former Vice President’s approval ratings still in the low, Obama has a lot to do while visiting the states of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
There is unarguably a strong push from the Republicans to beat Democrats’ narrow majorities in the House and Senate and claim key governorships ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Obama will be attending rallies with Democratic candidates for federal and state offices in in Georgia on Friday. He will then travel to Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday, followed by stops next week in Nevada and Pennsylvania.
With Biden’s job approval ratings in the low 40s amid sustained inflation, he’s an albatross for Democrats like Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, the Associated Press reported.
Obama left office in January 2017 with a 59% approval rating, and Gallup measured his post-presidential approval at 63% the following year, the last time the organisation surveyed former presidents.
That’s considerably higher than his ratings in 2010, when Democrats lost control of the House in a midterm election that Obama called a “shellacking.” In his second midterm election four years later, the GOP regained control of the Senate.
Swimming against those historical tides, Biden traveled Thursday to Syracuse, New York, for a rare appearance in a competitive congressional district. After months of Republican attacks over inflation, he offered a closing economic argument buoyed somewhat by news of 2.6% GDP growth in the third quarter after two previous quarters of retraction, the AP reported.
However, a latest poll has revealed that Biden’s job approval rating has slipped back to 40 per cent. The number was a step down from the 44 per cent measured in August but still above his term-low 38 per cent from July, shows the new Gallup poll released on Tuesday..
In all other months in 2022, Biden’s approval rating had been in the range between 40 per cent and 42 per cent, reports Xinhua news agency. The latest survey conducted earlier this month found 56 per cent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance.
His approval ratings continued to be starkly different by political party, with 85 per cent of Democrats and only 4 per cent of Republicans approving.
The 81-point gap in party ratings matches the average for Biden’s presidency to date. Thirty-nine per cent of political independents approve of the job Biden is doing, slightly above the 36 per cent average approval rating among independents from January to September.
Americans’ evaluations of the job Biden is doing as president continue to be more negative than positive, as they have for over a year now. Given the relationship between low job approval ratings and midterm election outcomes, Biden’s unpopularity is likely to be a drag on his fellow Democrats’ chances in the November 8 mid-term elections, according to Gallup.
