New Poll Shows Biden Is a Train Wreck With Group Dems Desperately Need – Opinion

Joe Biden’s poll numbers are in the basement as we approach 2022 and the run-up to the midterms.

He’s tanked across all demographics. But it turns out that one of the categories in which he’s lost the most support is one that he desperately needs for Democrats to win — young people. Biden, who is governing left-leaning, tends to have more support from young people. A new analysis done by The Economist using polling from You Gov shows that those people are what are throwing Biden out the window.

[A]On average, 29% approve of Mr. Biden’s job as President. However, this compares to the 50% who are disapproving. For any age group, the net rating is -21 points. The president’s net rating is -21 points for adults between the ages of 30 and 44. Adults 45-64 give him a -17 rating, while those 65 years and older get a -5 rating. This markedly reverses the trend from last year’s beginning, when Mr Biden received a net approval rating of 32 points higher among young voters than it did for older citizens. The youngest voters are the ones who have fallen out of favor with Mr Biden.

This equates to a net approval drop of -50 points.

This is my article on YouGov/Economist data that shows a dramatic drop in support for Biden among youth. The decrease really is quite stunning: -50 points on net approval since January 26th (our first survey of his presidency).https://t.co/x5Ss0aB7sv

— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) December 16, 2021

The Democrats are in trouble at the midterms, as I reported yesterday. They need to get their act together to avoid a mass slaughter. The midterms are already a mixed bag for young people, and their dislike of Biden will likely make it even more difficult for Democrats.

Part of the initial approval may have been anti-Trump support, but not genuine support. But there’s also anger that he’s not coming across with what they want.

It’s hard to believe but some do think he’s not radical enough. Maybe I should call him successfully radical. Biden/his people talk radical policies — such as those in the Build Back Better bill — but then they don’t get it done. We just saw BBB likely biting the dust after the Biden team wasn’t able to meet their goal of getting it done by Christmas. So there’s a lot of anger over his failure to follow through on things like that. This number may not include student loan debt anger as the repayments are set to resume. Many on the left were pushing to continue putting off the repayment on student loan debt but Biden isn’t going for that. On February 1, 2022, repayment will be recommenced. Biden failed to repay the $10,000 of student loans he had promised.

Our YouGov/Economist polls reveal that Biden’s popularity has dropped the most among Americans younger than 30 years old. And the 30-44 demographic gives him the worst net rating of any group—worse even than boomers. Reinstating student loan repayment will be costly https://t.co/IVjBfI5OAY

More tk https://t.co/6LbNUlyHoZ

— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) December 14, 2021

Biden’s bold moves, and his failures such as the one in Afghanistan, have led to Biden losing independents. And he’s lost people across the board because of inflation — with only 28 percent approving and 69 percent disapproving — and his handling of crime, with only 36 percent approving of how he is handling that.

So when you’re looking for folks who will turn out to support Biden and the Democrats in 2022, right now we may be looking at a whole lot of empty.