On each of six key issues measured, more voters disapprove of President Biden’s performance.
A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that Biden’s weakest ratings are on the topic of immigration where just 31% approve and 57% disapprove (net rating of -26 points). Forty-eight percent (48%) of voters believe the Biden Administration is making it too easy for illegal immigrants to enter the country. Just 10% disagree.
Most voters (55%) believe drug cartels have more control of the southern border than the U.S. government.
On the topic of government spending and taxes, just 36% approve and 54% disapprove (net rating -18). That may partly reflect the fact that his Build Back Better plan had a number of extraordinarily unpopular items. Additionally, most voters share Senator Joe Manchin’s concerns and believe the president’s plan would have made inflation worse.
On the economy, the president has a net rating of -11 (41% approve while 52% disapprove). He does a little better on national security (40% approve, 48% disapprove, net rating of -8).
His best marks were earned on COVID (45% approve, 48% disapprove, net rating of -3) and Health care (44% approve, 45% disapprove, net rating of -8).
On all six issues, the number who Strongly Disapprove is significantly higher than the number who Strongly Approve.
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Question:
Please let me know if you approve or disapprove of the way President Biden is handling each of the following issues:
The economy
18% Strongly approve
23% Somewhat approve
18% Somewhat disapprove
34% Strongly disapprove
8% Not sure
COVID
24% Strongly approve
21% Somewhat approve
18% Somewhat disapprove
30% Strongly disapprove
6% Not sure
Immigration
14% Strongly approve
17% Somewhat approve
18% Somewhat disapprove
39% Strongly disapprove
11% Not sure
National security
18% Strongly approve
22% Somewhat approve
18% Somewhat disapprove
30% Strongly disapprove
13% Not sure
Health care
20% Strongly approve
24% Somewhat approve
18% Somewhat disapprove
27% Strongly disapprove
11% Not sure
Taxes and government spending
16% Strongly approve
20% Somewhat approve
14% Somewhat disapprove
40% Strongly disapprove
10% Not sure
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 Registered Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on December 8-10, 2021. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of Registered Voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
