88% of Americans believe that the United States is on the wrong course.
This is evidenced by the survey data from Monmouth University.
“Only 10% of Americans believe that their country is moving in the right direction, while 88% voice the opposite opinion.
This is the lowest number of answers to this question since 2013,” the study says.
It is also noted that 54% of Americans think that the policies pursued by US President Joe Biden "did not bring any benefit to the middle class."
“The majority (57%) say that the actions of the federal authorities over the past six months have harmed their family in terms of their main problem.
Only 8% say that Washington helped them, and 34% say that the actions of the federal government did not really have any effect on the main topic of their concerns, ”the study says.
According to Monmouth University, the proportion of Americans in financial trouble has “upped by double digits over the past year.”
“More than four in ten Americans (42%) say they find it difficult to stay where they are financially,” the survey description reads.
“Since last year, the proportion of those who claim to be experiencing (financial. -
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) difficulties has increased by 18 percentage points (from 24 to 42%).”
Topping the list of problems families face in the US are inflation and higher gas prices.
“About half of the respondents attribute the main fears that their families have to inflation (33%) or gasoline prices (15%),” the survey description explains.
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As Patrick Murray, head of the independent Institute for Public Opinion Research at Monmouth University, noted, economic concerns tend to be among the top concerns for American families, "but unprecedented inflation is really taking its toll."
“And most Americans blame Washington for their current difficulties,” he said.
Biden's level of support
Against this backdrop, Biden's work approval rating continues to decline.
Currently, only 36% of the population support the activities of the US president, while 58% do not, according to a survey by Monmouth University.
The fact that the level of approval of the policy of the head of the White House is hitting new anti-records is also indicated by the data of the poll aggregator portal RealClearPolitics.
Now this figure is 38.2%.
The lowest level of support for the entire time of Biden's presidency was recorded on June 29 - 38%.
Recall that when the 46th US leader first came to power, he had the highest level of approval among Americans for the entire period of his tenure - 55.8%.
According to RealClearPolitics, 57.1% of Americans do not support Biden's policies.
This figure reached only 35% at the beginning of the presidential term of the head of the United States - in February 2021.
The work of Congress is approved by only 15% of Americans, as in May of this year, according to a study by Monmouth University.
“The economic situation is depressing for Americans.
They are unhappy with Washington.
However, this did not change the overall picture of who they want to see at the helm in Congress.
The question is who will actually turn up for the fall vote,” said Patrick Murray.
According to Fox News political commentator Tomi Laren, after the November midterm elections to the House of Representatives, the US Democratic Party plans to make a scapegoat out of US President Joe Biden, because, according to her, he is just a puppet in their hands.
She expressed this opinion on the air of Sky News Australia.
As Laren said, when the Democrats are “destroyed and torn to smithereens, they will throw” the head of the White House and say that the problem is in him and in the current US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Earlier, on July 1, a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll was published, according to which 71% of respondents believe that Biden should not run again for the presidency in 2024, 29% hold the opposite position.
Among opponents of Biden's renomination, 45% believe that he is a "bad president", 30% indicated that he is "too old", and 26% said that "change" in the American leadership is necessary.
"Can not manage"
According to the director of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States at Moscow State University, Yuri Rogulev, not only opinion polls, but also the deplorable state of the American economy testify to the “unfavorable situation” in the United States.
“The US is on the verge of a recession, and the situation is only getting worse: prices continue to rise, as does inflation, some markets are falling, the value of the shares of a number of companies is declining.
Opinion polls only confirm this.
The situation is correctly read by the majority of the population in the United States, except perhaps for Biden, who continues to argue that a recession is not inevitable, ”the expert said in an interview with RT.
As Rogulev noted, in many respects the situation in the United States began to deteriorate due to the mistakes of the current administration in both foreign and domestic policy.
White House Chief Joe Biden
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“The current head of the White House pays great attention to foreign policy issues, especially the Ukrainian crisis, while in domestic politics the American leader has accumulated a large number of problems that he obviously cannot cope with.
Moreover, Biden's measures in foreign policy, in particular anti-Russian sanctions, negatively affect the situation inside the United States: the cost of energy is growing, food and other goods are becoming more expensive.
The White House did not calculate the risks and even openly admitted it, ”the analyst said.
According to Rogulev, Biden's rating has been declining before, but now he is breaking all anti-records.
“This is happening because whatever decisions Biden makes, Americans see how they lead to another failure.
Many in the US are even talking about a management crisis in the current US administration,” the expert stated.
As American political scientist Malek Dudakov noted in an interview with RT, against the background of the current economic problems in the United States, the vast majority of Americans see that the United States is "degrading, not developing."
“Indeed, now an overwhelming percentage of Americans indicate a deterioration in their standard of living.
In domestic politics, the head of the White House has a lot of problems: the fuel crisis, inflation, economic recession.
He can’t cope with all this, but he tightens anti-Russian sanctions and sends weapons to Ukraine,” the analyst said.
As Dudakov said, the Americans themselves are much more concerned not with the Ukrainian crisis, but with “what is happening to their pockets.”
“Polls also show this.
When gasoline is so expensive, the economy slows down, prices start to rise, and unemployment rises.
The Americans refuse to support the Biden administration and himself only for loud slogans, ”the expert noted.
Analysts also agree that the general dissatisfaction of Americans with the US course and Biden's policies could have an extremely negative impact on the positions of the Democrats before the congressional elections.
“According to the results of this vote, a significant part of Congress, primarily the House of Representatives, should be updated.
Now the Democratic Party has the majority there, but the current situation in the US economy and Biden's falling rating may lead to the fact that the Democrats will lose a number of seats.
The weakening of their influence in Congress can be very significant, ”Rogulev said.
He also stressed that the situation inside the United States is unlikely to change for the better, as well as Biden's rating before and after the electoral process.
A similar opinion is shared by Dudakov.
In his opinion, after the midterm congressional elections, Biden “will finally turn into a lame duck president,” who will not be able to pass his decisions through the upper and lower houses.
“Most likely, the Republican Party will win, get a majority in both chambers, and the Democrats will face a historic defeat: they will lose at least 30-40 seats in the lower house and several seats in the Senate,” the expert concluded.