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Saint Joe of the Low Bar: President Biden, Approval Numbers, and Ticking Clocks
As he takes the stage for his Joint Session speech the question of just what the Joe Biden presidency is going to be is very much up in the air
President Biden has his much discussed “100 Days” landing just about as well as he could have hoped. On Wednesday, the 46th president will deliver a “not the State of the Union” address to a joint session of congress. Thursday is the actual date for the much ado “First 100 days” and will see the President travel to the politically Hotlanta in Georgia, a makeup trip that was cancelled earlier by a mass shooting. And to kick off such a busy week for the Biden Administration, good news in the approval polling department.
According to the poll, 53 percent of adults say they approve of Biden’s job as president — including 90 percent of Democrats, 61 percent of independents but just 9 percent of Republicans — while 39 percent of all respondents say they disapprove.
Biden’s job rating is higher than Donald Trump’s was at this same point in time in the poll (40 percent approve, 54 percent disapprove), but it’s lower than Barack Obama’s was at 100 days (61 percent approve, 30 percent disapprove).
