Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calls President Joe Biden the "worst president in history," and now there is new polling data to back that up.
Biden rates as the least popular president in the 70-year history of the data, according to latest Gallup Poll results released this weekend, trumping the previously lowest-rated presidencies of Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Richard Nixon.
"With about six months remaining before Election Day, Biden stands in a weaker position than any prior incumbent, and thus faces a taller task than they did in getting reelected," Gallup's Jeffrey Jones wrote in his Bottom Line analysis.
The poll reviewed the historical 13th quarter approval ratings (first quarter of the first four-year term) of each presidency since 1956, finding Biden's first term average approval rating of 38.7% to be the lowest of all the first terms.
"From a broader historical perspective, Biden's most recent quarterly average ranks 277th out of 314 presidential quarters in Gallup records dating to 1945," Jones added. "That puts it in the bottom 12% of all presidential quarters."
The worst 13th quarter first-term presidential approval rating averages:
- Biden 38.7%
- George H.W. Bush 41.8%
- Barack Obama 45.9%
- Trump 46.8%
- Carter 47.7%
- George W. Bush 51%
- Bill Clinton 53.0%
- Nixon 53.7%
- Ronald Reagan 54.5%
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 73.2%
Gallup did not analyze data before the Eisenhower administration.
Among those four above that had sub-50% majority approval, only Obama won reelection for a second term.
Just 2% of Republicans approve of the job Biden has done and only 33% of independents approve, giving Biden little but the reliable Democrat voters in his bid for reelection, according to the poll.
Gallup's approval rating came from a poll among 1,001 Americans from April 1-22, and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.