What Biden’s rough 2023 polls — and don’t mean — for 2024

The polls all agree: Joe Biden’s political standing is lower than Barack Obama’s a year before his re-election — and lower than Trump’s before his 2020 loss.

The different polls all agree: President Joe Biden’s political standing is lower than Barack Obama’s was at this point before his re-election — and even lower than Donald Trump’s was a year before his 2020 loss.

Last month’s national NBC News poll found Biden’s approval rating declining to 40%, the lowest mark of his presidency. (That compares with Obama’s 46% among all adults in December 2011 and Trump’s 44% in December 2019, according to past editions of the poll.)

The findings are consistent with other national and battleground-state polling showing Biden’s approval rating in the 30s and 40s.

What’s more, Biden ended the year narrowly trailing Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup in the NBC News poll, albeit within the margin of error — which Obama never did against Mitt Romney in the 2012 election cycle.

Other polls also find Biden in a highly competitive 2024 contest with Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-rough-2023-polls-dont-mean-2024-rcna130446

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