26% favorable for ol' Kumula!
According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, President Joe Biden has a 35% favorable rating. If you think that's bad, his 31% job approval rating is even worse.
And just to look at a couple of key Democratic demographics, 63% of voters under 35 and fully 70% of Hispanic voters disapprove of his job performance.
That's pretty bad going into the midterm elections. In fact, it's bad enough that former President Donald Trump, currently the subject of hearings that have a 48% plurality of voters convinced that he committed a crime (versus 44% no crime), has a better approval rating in this poll and leads Biden head-to-head in seven of the last eight surveys that asked the question.
Meanwhile, 71% of adults and 54% of Democrats don't want Biden to run again.
So what happens if Biden doesn't run for reelection? Some people might think the natural choice is Vice President Kamala Harris. But this poll puts her favorable rating at 9 points behind Biden's — 26%. In her defense, there are a lot more people (22%) who say they "haven't heard enough" about her to form an opinion, but that's pretty faint praise for a vice president with a 50% unfavorable rating.
And believe it or not, the first black woman vice president has a lower favorable rating with black people (48% versus 61% for Biden), women (36% versus 43% for Biden), and Democrats (61% versus 79% for Biden) than the white, male, least popular president in the history of polling.