<p>There are still 553 days until Election Day 2024, but right now, things look pretty bleak for President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>Shortly after Biden announced his re-election campaign &#8212; not with a live event featuring thousands of cheering supporters but with a weird video posted on his website &#8212; his job approval rating among the U.S. public slipped to 37%, Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/505202/biden-begins-reelection-bid-low-point-presidency.aspx">reports</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s just slightly more than 1 in 3 people &#8212; not a winning number. In the 2020 election, Biden won 51.3% of the vote, so that&#8217;s a 14.3% drop in support.</p>
<p>And for the record, 37% is the lowest Gallup has measured for him to date. The president&#8217;s job approval has been hovering in the low 40s for most of the last 18 months, after the initial honeymoon period. But he did drop to 38% last July, then his lowest.</p>
<p>The latest Gallup poll, taken April 3-25, shows a 3-point dip from March and a 5-point drop from February. His ninth quarter average in polling is 39.7%.</p>
<p>&#8220;Only Ronald Reagan in early 1983 had a lower ninth-quarter average among elected post-World War II presidents,&#8221; the pollsters wrote. &#8220;Reagan’s low ratings came during a period when the unemployment rate exceeded 10% after the 1981-1982 economic recession.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the record, Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump had approval ratings slightly above Biden and Reagan at just over 40%. But all of them were far behind George H.W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and George W. Bush, who averaged above 60% approval during their ninth quarter in office.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse, while the latest poll finds 83% of Democrats support Biden, but just 31% of independents back him. That ties the lowest reading to date among independents and shows a 9-point drop since February&#8217;s poll.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid. Just 16% say the economy is &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good,&#8221; 37% say it is “only fair,” and 47% say it is &#8220;poor&#8221; (up from 43% in March).</p>
<p>&#8220;The drop in Biden’s job approval corresponds with Americans’ worsening evaluations of the U.S. economy,&#8221; the pollsters wrote. &#8220;Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index for April is -44, down from -38 in March. It was last at this level in October.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, another <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/505385/gov-no-guns-crime-top-problem.aspx">poll</a> shows Americans think poorly of the federal government as a whole.</p>
<p>&#8220;More Americans continue to name government leadership than any other issue as the most important problem facing the country, with various aspects of U.S. leadership mentioned by 18% of adults in April,&#8221; the Gallup poll found. Fourteen percent cite the economy as the biggest problem, while the high cost of living and inflation came in third at 9%.</p>
<p>Even Democrats are getting bummed about the direction of the nation. Their overall satisfaction dropped 5 points since March to 29%. For independents, it&#8217;s even worse at just 16%.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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