By
Eli Yokley
June 8, 2022 at 6:00 am ET
President Joe Biden’s job approval rating has reached a new low, according to Morning Consult/Politico tracking, slipping below 40% for the first time since he entered office.
Biden’s diminishing standing should be alarming to Democrats working to hold control of Congress in the midterm elections this fall. While Biden’s decline has not yet dragged down approval for most Democratic incumbents on the Senate side of the aisle, studies have shown an increasing association between a party’s House performance and their president’s job approval rating.
When it comes to this president, specifically, surveys at this point have found that an aversion to Biden doesn’t necessarily mean a vote against the Democratic Party come November, though that likely provides little solace given the bleak nature of the political environment.
The latest Morning Consult/Politico survey was conducted June 4-5, 2022, among a representative sample of 2,006 registered U.S. voters, with an unweighted margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.