A year has passed since the elections that brought Joe Biden to the White House and the Democrat is going through his lowest hours. It is not being the anniversary dreamed of by the president, who has added an unexpected electoral blow in the state of Virginia – a Democratic fiefdom in the last decade – to his already repetitive crisis in the popularity indexes, which mark him as one of the leaders with least endorsement in US history.
This week marks the anniversary of the November 3 elections: not so the one of his electoral victory, of course, since the results took days, even weeks to confirm. Her path to the proclamation, which would finally take place in a timely manner, was marked by judicial attempts to be stopped by the legal team of the outgoing president, Donald Trump , in a strategy of little success in its final resolution.
This anniversary comes at a singularly difficult time for Biden. This week came a milestone in the legislature that was particularly symbolic with the elections for governor in the state of Virginia, a fiefdom that, although during much of the transition between the twentieth century and the current one, was a fiefdom of the Republicans, since the years of Obama dyed himself a Democratic blue. According to the polls, Biden’s candidate was a clear favorite to win, but after the appointment with the polls, the winner was Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin. He is a candidate completely identified with Donald Trump and, in fact, the Democratic campaign had been orchestrated on that idea, that a victory for the Republican would mean an endorsement of the former president, who maneuvers to run again as a candidate in the elections 2024 nationals.
The Democratic Party in the state of New Jersey has also touched the electoral debacle, a fiefdom of less importance but in which Biden obtained great support in the last elections with a clear victory. Now, in the gubernatorial election, Republicans have narrowed to victory, which at the last minute was saved by the current Democratic president, Phil Murphy.
Free fall popularity
This blow at the polls has come to Joe Biden at a time when his popularity ratings mark him as the third least supported president among his population in the history of the United States. With the recent memory of the hasty departure from Afghanistan of US troops, the index of citizens who support his administration has fallen to 43%, according to data from Real Clear Politics , which makes an average of the different polls.
It saves Biden’s image in this sense that of the two presidents with an even worse image at this point in office, one of them was precisely Donald Trump. The worst, by the way, was also Republican Gerald Ford, president between ’74 and ’77.
Moreover, according to another index also revealed by the same body, 48% of the Democrats themselves estimate that the country is not on the right track with Biden at the helm. The approval of his discharge in the fight against the pandemic – probably the biggest factor in the fall of Donald Trump in his attempt to revalidate his mandate – does not save the face of a Biden whose erratic management in the crisis in Afghanistan and in the entry of illegal immigrants through the border with Mexico is complicating his first half term.
