Biden has 39 percent approval; in one year it fell 20 points – El Financiero

WASHINGTON, DC.- On July 4, President Joe Biden gathered hundreds of people outside the White House for an event that would have been unthinkable the year before.

With COVID-19 in apparent retreat, they ate burgers and watched fireworks on the National Mall.

But that closeness to the people has not served The latest poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Biden’s approval rating is 39 percent, the lowest since he took office and a sharp drop since he took office. it got 59 percent a year ago. Only 14 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the right direction; 44 percent don’t see it that way.

Although the pandemic was not yet over, Biden said a year ago that “we are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.”

Some of the president’s allies privately admitted that the speech had been premature. The number of people in the United States who have died from COVID-19 nearly doubled, from 605,000 to more than a million, last year.

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