The poll, which was conducted nationally this week and collected responses from more Democrats than Republicans, revealed just 44 percent of adults in the United States approve of Biden's performance in office.
Comment: That would account for his numbers not tanking further!
The poll noted the president's popularity has slowly been declining since mid-August when he botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan, resulting in the death of 13 U.S. servicemembers and the Afghan government collapsing.
Biden's response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic also dropped below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency. Only about 48 percent approved Biden's Chinese coronavirus-related policies, compared to the 46 percent who disapproved of the policies.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online between September 15 and 16 through the United States.
There were 1,005 adults respondents who were weighted more towards the Democrat's side, with 442 Democrats and 360 Republicans. The poll's margin of error was four percentage points.
Reader Comments
Government knows they are complicit in the development of the virus (as are several other Western governments) and so they keep pointing at China and shouting "they did it!!" After a while even the biggest lie is believed because it is told so often.
" Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Saturday that the US warship's transit through the Taiwan Straits is about sending a provocative message, and to encourage Taiwan secessionism, but the US military is not ready for a war with the PLA.
So the PLA's action in the region is not just targeting any specific move made by the US, because the US' intention is clear, and what the PLA is doing is about preparing for the worst case scenario - an all-out military intervention made by US and its allies, and only by doing so, the PLA will be able to defeat all kinds of enemies, especially the foreign interventionist forces, when China launches an operation to reunify Taiwan with the mainland , Song said.
"There is no secret that the military exercises the PLA has conducted around Taiwan are targeting secessionist forces on the island and any foreign forces that support them. We can openly tell them that we are treating them as simulated enemies during those relevant military exercises," he said [Link]
Similarly the Chinese navy has just returned a flotilla of destroyers, supply and spy ships which traversed the Aleutian Islands within the U.S. economic zone this past week. [Link]
This trip freaked out the Americans so badly that they posted the naval intelligence report for less than 48-hours before it went missing.
The American public probably don't even know this happened.
War is coming. Sooner rather than later.
Similarly China could suddenly dump their U.S. dollar holding onto the market (Russia has done that slowly over the course of several years to avoid financial shock and to get a better return on their investment) or demand the U.S. buy them back directly because there is very little interest from the world in U.S. debt funding these days.
However, the U.S. would have to honour it's financial obligations and liabilities when it comes to the trillion U.S. dollars which the Chinese still hold in U.S. Treasuries.
I don't think they will. I think the U.S. will tell China to stick their trillion where the egg foo young comes from. I don't know if this will happen before or after China sinks a U.S. navy ship as it lurks around Taiwan.
R.C.
RC
Ain't HA2 & Parzival grand? Love those guys!
RC