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This One Basic Mistake Is Blowing Up Biden’s Presidency

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Yogi Berra was right. “It gets late early out here.” Just nine months into his presidency, Biden’s support is collapsing.

This isn’t just me saying so, although I’ve been warning about it for months. According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, Biden’s approval rating is just 42 percent, with 50 percent of Americans ​​disapproving of how he’s handling his job. Amazingly, that’s good news compared with the Quinnipiac poll, which shows his approval rating at just 38 percent. It should come as no surprise, especially when you consider the policies that have dominated the headlines these last few months. When it comes to his job as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military (perhaps best demonstrated by the Afghanistan debacle), just 37 percent approve of how he handled it, while 58 percent disapprove. Or take the crisis at the Mexican border, where 23 percent approve and 67 percent disapprove.

Sagging approval numbers aside, Biden is running neck and neck with Trump when it comes to one group of voters. As The Washington Post’s Henry Olsen points out, among independents, “Biden is about as unpopular as Trump was at this stage in his presidency.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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