November 2, 2024
President Joe Biden's low popularity stands at 38 percent, five points below former President Trump in January 2020 and nine points worse than former President Obama at the same point in his tenure.

President Joe Biden holds the lowest January approval rating in an election year during the modern era of polling, a CNN poll found this week, underscoring the president’s deep unpopularity.

Biden’s low popularity stands at 38 percent, five points below former President Trump in January 2020 and nine points worse than former President Obama at the same point in his tenure:

  1. Eisenhower, 1956 — 77 percent
  2. Johnson, 1964 — 76 percent
  3. Carter, 1980 — 58 percent
  4. Reagan, 1984 — 55 percent
  5. Truman, 1948 — 53 percent
  6. Clinton, 1996 — 52 percent
  7. Bush, 2004 — 49 percent
  8. Nixon, 1972 — 49 percent
  9. Obama, 2012 — 47 percent
  10. Bush, 1992 — 47 percent
  11. Ford, 1976 — 45 percent
  12. Trump, 2020 — 43 percent
  13. Biden, 2024 — 38 percent

The poll sampled 1,212 adults from January 25-30 and has a 3.8-point margin of error.

The survey is the latest in historically bad polling for the president.

In December, FiveThirtyEight also showed that Biden is the least popular president in modern U.S. history, finding that his approval rating is -18 percentage points, besting Trump by about six points:

  • 37.7 percent approve of Biden
  • 55.6 percent disapprove of Biden

In January, FiveThirtyEight found that Biden held the worst net approval rating in history at that time in office: 1,080 days into his tenure. The following is the net approval rating of previous presidents in the modern era at the same time in their presidencies:

  • Biden: -17.2 points
  • Trump: -11.8 points
  • Obama: -0.6 points
  • Carter: +9.6 points
  • Clinton: +11.2 points
  • H.W. Bush: +12.5 points
  • Nixon: +14.6 points
  • Reagan: +15.3 points
  • Truman: +16.7 points
  • G.W. Bush: +20.3 points
  • Eisenhower: +62.6 points

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.