Chalian: ‘The Country Has Soured on Joe Biden’

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CHALIAN: "Jake, the country has soured on Joe Biden. There’s just not another way to put it. According to our latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, a national poll gives us this snapshot in time. Biden’s approval rating is 39% in our poll, 61% disapprove of the job he’s doing. Look at it by party. You see that even among his fellow Democrats, he’s only at 77% approval in this poll, only a third of independents approve of the job he’s doing, and of course, as you might imagine, only 5% of Republicans. How are things going in the country today? Badly, say nearly three quarters of respondents in this poll. 72%, things are going badly in the country today. Only 28% say they’re going well. Again, that astonishing number on whether or not Biden has the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively as president, only 25% of poll respondents say that he does have the stamina, 74% say no. And I know you’re a history buff like I am, and so look here on this chart of where Biden’s modern-day predecessors were in their approval rating at this point in their presidency. And Jake, you see Biden is down there between Donald Trump and Jimmy Carter. You may know that is down in the category of one-term presidents. He clearly wants to turn that around and he’s got a year to do so, Jake."