President Biden faces crises with his domestic agenda and the pandemic, as his approval among the public continues to falter. Scott Detrow & Domenico Montanaro, NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Biden’s approval dips to new low as independents sour on his leadership
As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he’s facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low. Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing as president, according to a new PBS […] Read more »
Democrats self-destructing after Manchin’s maverick move
President Biden has no one to blame for the collapse of the Build Back Better legislation but himself. … There was no way that Manchin could ever have supported such an expensive social-spending package, at least if he wanted to win another election in Trump-friendly West Virginia in 2024. … […] Read more »
Will Trump Ruin a Red Wave in 2022?
… Mr. Trump remains the central figure in the G.O.P. Party elites try to ignore him as he spends many days fighting Republicans rather than Democrats and plotting his revenge against the 10 Republican House members who voted for his second impeachment, the seven Republican senators who voted to convict […] Read more »
How Biden is faring nearly a year into his presidency
We are in the twilight of the year. A year that is memorable even if that memory is a strange limbo existence between normal and COVID. The Biden administration came into 2021 like a bull riding the COVID wave to victory and through the first six months. However, its primary […] Read more »
Forty-eight percent of Americans approve of President Biden’s performance in office
Just over half of Americans approve of the way President Biden has been handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the environment. Americans believe the economy (23%), public health (12%), crime or corruption (9%), and the environment (9%) are the most important problems facing the U.S. today. … Americans would like Biden […] Read more »