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New poll reveals 50% of Americans ‘frustrated’ with Biden’s presidency

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • A CBS News poll released Sunday reveals that 50% of Americans report being frustrated with President Joe Biden’s performance.
  • Many are unsatisfied with his handling of the economy, inflation, Afghanistan and the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Overall, survey respondents seemed less than optimistic about the current state of the nation.

In a new CBS News poll released Sunday, half the respondents said they were “frustrated” with President Joe Biden nearly a year into his presidency.

The respondents were asked how Biden’s presidency made them feel. Fifty percent of those surveyed said “frustrated,” 49% replied “disappointed” and 40% said “nervous.” Only 25% of respondents answered “calm” and “relaxed.”

Overall, the CBS News survey respondents seemed less than optimistic about the current state of the nation. Almost 75 percent of respondents said they felt that the U.S. was doing “somewhat” or “very” badly in a general sense.

A majority of people said that they disapproved of the way Biden was handling the economy, immigration, race relations, crime, inflation, policing and Afghanistan.

People also appeared to lose some confidence in Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the few areas of Biden’s presidency in which people have so far continued to approve of. When asked how they felt he was doing now, 49 percent said he was doing a good job of handling the pandemic while 51 percent said he was doing badly.

When it came to how Biden cared about the problems and needs of “people like you,” respondents were similarly split, with 45 percent saying they felt that he cared to some degree while 54 percent expressed doubts over how much he cared about their issues.

Regardless of whether they supported Biden or the Democratic Party, 61 percent told CBS news said they felt that Democrats were concentrating on issues that they cared about.

Fifty-three percent said they approved of Biden’s Build Back Better plan. When asked how improvements on a certain issue would change their opinion on Biden, 70 percent said that improving on inflation would make their opinion of the president better.

The CBS News poll surveyed 2,094 U.S. adults and was conducted from Jam. 12-14. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

Source: The Hill

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