Joe Biden Now Officially Worse Than Jimmy Carter – Opinion

We’ve been covering how Joe Biden’s approval ratings have completely cratered, particularly when it comes to his handling of the economy. We noticed earlier this day that his ratings are taking another dip, even among independents.

Now, Biden has officially hit perhaps one of the worst measures that you can hit — that’s the “Worse than Jimmy Carter” measure. Historically, Carter has always represented the lowest of the low when you’re talking about the economy because of the horrible inflation he faced at the time and his failure to do anything effective to address it. He also made things worse with his “malaise speech” — a speech where he said there was a crisis in confidence.

A new CNN poll is finding that Biden’s numbers are now worse than Carter’s at the same time. It is so bad that even CNN doesn’t notice it.

The latest CNN/SSRS poll shows Biden with a 44% approval rating compared to 55% disapproval among registered voters about his economic performance. It gives Biden a net approval rating of -9. Biden scored -13 points for the economy in all of December’s polls.

This is a significant difference from the 44-year average presidential approval rating (from the time we started polling about the topic). That means Biden’s is 18 points worse than the average.

Comparative:

Carter’s economic net approval rating of -8 points in an early January 1978 CBS News/New York Times poll was the lowest around this point in a presidency before Biden’s -13 points. The economy, and particularly inflation, was listed as the nation’s top problem in a late October 1977 Gallup poll.

Jimmy Carter was badly hurt in 1980.

As we previously noted, the recent ABC/Ipsos poll found that only 28 percent of Americans approved of Biden’s handling of inflation, while 69 percent disapproved. Also, November saw wholesale prices rise at an unprecedented pace, rising 9.6 per cent over the last 12 months. This is a significant increase from the 9.2 percentage. That’s the biggest annual PPI gain on record. So even Democratic pollsters warned Democrats to focus on the kitchen. If they don’t, they might face doom in general and not just during midterms.

Meanwhile, in the effort to go full-blown Jimmy Carter 2.0, Joe Biden did a redux of the “malaise speech” with his fear porn COVID speech where he warned America about a “winter of severe illness and death” because of the unvaccinated, continuing to be divisive and antagonistic.

Now, if he’s going to fully follow through on following Carter, he has to end up being a one-termer. But what makes him even worse, even beyond the numbers, is that he doesn’t seem to care that his policies hurt people, he’s just always right — in his mind — no matter what. Carter did seem to care. Now, I suppose one might think that once he’s hit Carter level, he could only go up from there. But given Biden’s ability to always go lower, I don’t think I can bet on that.