Poll shows Biden at record low approval rating, trailing Trump in 2024 race

President Biden’s approval rating has hit an all-time low, and he’s trailing former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 runoff.

Trump leads Biden 47 percent to 43 percent in a hypothetical vote between just those two candidates and trails by 37 percent to 31 percent in a hypothetical vote with five independent candidates, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released Saturday.

The president’s declining numbers against Trump also come as voters give Biden low marks, including just 23% of respondents saying Biden’s policies have helped them personally, compared to 53% who say they’ve been hurt by the policies of the president.

About half of those polled said they were helped by Trump’s policies when he was president, and only 37% said the former president’s policies hurt them.

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Biden’s overall job performance garnered just 37 percent approval from survey respondents as well, a new low for the WSJ poll. At the same time, 61% of respondents see his overall image in an unfavorable light, which is a record for the survey.

The president also compares unfavorably to Trump when it comes to most issues, with majorities saying Trump is better on the economy, inflation and border security. Trump also garnered higher marks than Biden on crime and the ability to deal with the Israel-Hamas conflict. Meanwhile, Biden edged out Trump only on abortion and setting a better policy tone.

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“Americans were better off financially under President Trump. Now, under Crooked Joe Biden, we have runaway inflation, a porous southern border, crime on our streets and chaos around the world,” Jason Miller, Trump’s senior adviser, told Fox News Digital.

“If this race is about politics and performance, then Donald Trump has a significant advantage,” Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster who conducted the poll with Democrat Michael Bocian, said of the results. “If this race is about temperament and character, things like that, then Biden has the edge.”

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Bochian, meanwhile, said Biden could struggle with groups that traditionally side with Democrats, including young Hispanics and black Americans.

“They feel economically stressed and challenged right now. And they’re not showing enthusiasm the way they were going in 2020, 2022,” he said.

The survey covered 1,500 registered voters between November 29 and December 4 with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points.

The Wall Street Journal poll is the latest national poll in two months to show Trump ahead of Biden in hypothetical general election matchups.

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Biden once had the upper hand over Trump in polls for a 2024 rematch, but Trump has begun to enjoy an advantage over his White House successor in most polls starting in October. And a Siena College poll for the New York Times published early last month found Trump outpacing Biden in five of the six key battleground states the president flipped over Trump in the 2020 election. The poll prompted another round of stories highlighting Biden’s election woes.

The new Wall Street Journal poll is also the latest to show that Biden remains well below water on the most important measure of his presidency — his approval rating.

Biden’s approval rating has hovered between the low and mid-50s during his first six months in the White House. But the president’s numbers began to decline in August 2021 as a result of Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and after a spike in COVID-19 cases that summer among mostly unvaccinated people.

The decline in the president’s approval rating was also fueled by soaring inflation — which began rising in the summer of 2021 and remains a major concern for Americans’ pocketbooks to this day — and the wave of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. along the southern border with Mexico .

Biden stands far below where his three most recent two-term predecessors stood at this point in their presidencies as they successfully ran for re-election. The only recent president whose approval ratings were nearly as negative as Biden’s current numbers was his most recent predecessor, Trump.

Amid a series of polls suggesting Biden is trailing Trump in a likely 2024 rematch, the Biden campaign and Democratic allies are looking back nearly a dozen years.

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Then-former President Barack Obama — with Biden as his vice president — won re-election to a second term in the White House in 2012 despite polls a year earlier predicting defeat at the polls for the incumbent.

“The projections more than a year out look a little different a year later,” Biden campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said last month. “Don’t take our word for it: Gallup predicted an eight-point loss for President Obama, only to win handily a year later.”

Obama was saddled in late 2011 with unfavorable poll results a year before his re-election, but his situation was not as troubling as the deficits facing Biden now.

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