A whopping 78% of US adults believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a poll taken days after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was voted out of office by members of his own party.
Only 21% feel that the US is headed in the right direction, according to the Associated Press-NORC Research Center. The findings marked a decline from about a month earlier when the group found that 75% of Americans felt the country was headed in the wrong direction, compared to 25% who believed it was headed in the right direction.
Additionally, the survey’s findings mark the most negative sentiment about the country’s direction since May, around the time of the debt ceiling crisis.
Overall, President Biden was tied with a 38% net job approval rating and a 61% net disapproval rating.
Only 20% of respondents felt that the US was heading in the right direction.REUTERS
A total of 54% of respondents view Biden unfavorably, while 42% view him favorably.
Meanwhile, his 2024 GOP primary rival, former President Donald Trump scored a 58% net unfavorable rating compared to 37% favorable.
Nationally, Trump and Biden are neck and neck, with the 77-year-old former president holding a 0.8 percentage point advantage in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
Biden, 80, saw his campaign bolstered by what he claimed was stronger third-quarter fundraising than Trump or any of the top 2024 Republican candidates.
His campaign raised $71.3 million from July through September when combined with the joint fundraising committee and the Democratic National Committee.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the two frontrunners to become the Republican and Democratic standard bearers in 2024. REUTERS
The AP-NORC survey also gauged widespread political discontent across the board.
Only 3% of respondents said they had a lot of confidence in Congress, while 42% had little confidence, and 53% had almost no confidence at all.
When asked about Congress’s decision to remove McCarthy as speaker on October 3, a net 25% approved, 25% disapproved and 48% neither approved nor disapproved.
McCarthy’s impeachment has paralyzed Congress, with House Republicans struggling for nearly two weeks to name a replacement.
Congress has been gripped by paralysis following the removal of Kevin McCarthy.ZUMAPRESS.com
Currently, the lower house is overseen by Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC), whose powers are very limited.
The poll was taken from October 5 to 9 and sampled 1,163 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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