How Biden's Presidents Day Approval Rating Compares to His Predecessors

President Joe Biden's approval rating is lower on Presidents Day than seven of his predecessors at this point in their terms.

Monday marked the 1,125th day that Biden has been in office and his approval rating is at 39.4 percent, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight. Meanwhile, 55.9 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Biden has done. As the president campaigns for a second term, his approval rating remains dismal. Americans have been concerned about how Biden is handling the economy and the U.S-Mexico border as illegal migrants flood into the United States.

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On the 1,125th day of Donald Trump's presidency, he had an approval rating of 43 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight. That's not too far off from his mid-to-high 40s popularity rating now as the GOP front-runner in the 2024 presidential race. With November looking like a rematch between Biden, the Democratic incumbent, and Trump, Americans aren't too enthusiastic about either.

Biden is doing worse than his past three Democratic predecessors: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. On Obama's 1,125th day in office, he had a 48.2 percent approval rating, while Clinton was at 48.9 percent and Carter 56.5 percent. Obama and Clinton both went on to second terms, but Carter was not reelected.

George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, had approval ratings of 49.6 percent and 44.3 percent, respectively, on their 1,125th day in office. Meanwhile, 54.4 percent of Americans approved of the job Ronald Reagan was doing on his 1,125th day. Of these three Republican former presidents, only George W. Bush and Reagan went on to have second terms.

According to a YouGov/CBS News poll conducted from February 12 to February 14, Biden's approval rating was slightly higher than the polling average at 42 percent, compared to 58 percent who disapprove. However, 61 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Biden is handling the economy, while only 39 percent approve.

The numbers were nearly identical for the way Americans view Biden's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. Sixty-two percent of Americans disapprove of the way Biden is handling matters concerning the southern border, while 38 percent approve. A total of 1,744 U.S. adults were surveyed and the margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

While the economy has seen some good news in recent weeks with an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent in January and an increase of 353,000 jobs last month, the surge in illegal migrant crossings at the southern border remains an issue. Biden did back a Senate bill this month that would've given $20 billion to border security and reformed the American immigration system, but it failed to get enough votes.