With the midterm elections in three months, Americans remain grim on the state of the economy and pessimistic about its future direction, according to new ABC News. Ipsos poll.
More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) believe the country’s economy is in decline. This is his highest since 2008, when he was 82% in the ABC News/Washington Post poll. Currently, only 12% believe the economy is improving, while 18% believe it will remain basically the same.
Americans’ view of Biden’s handling of the economic recovery remains overwhelmingly negative, virtually unchanged from the same poll in early June. According to the latest ABC News, only 37% of Americans approve of the president’s job, while 62% disapprove. / His Ipsos poll conducted using the Ipsos KnowledgePanel.
The president’s inflation assessment is even worse, with 29% of Americans in favor and 69% against. This number has not changed since June.
President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington on Aug. 5, 2022, before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 Small Business Relief Program.
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The only area where Mr. Biden shows improvement in the poll is his treatment of gas prices. Just over one in three Americans (34%) approve of the president’s handling of gas prices, up seven points from June.
This is because the average cost per gallon of gasoline has fallen and the White House celebrated the price cut.
Confidence in Biden’s handling of the economy and inflation is low following Friday’s jobs report that showed 528,000 jobs added in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The American unemployment rate has also dropped to 3.5%.
In a statement released Friday, Biden touted the July jobs report, which he said showed his administration was “making great strides for working families.”
When asked how enthusiastic they are about voting in November, 75% of Republicans said they were either very or somewhat supportive, compared to 68% of Democrats and 49% of independents. Did. In ABC News/Ipsos polls conducted in April and June this year, Republicans were more likely to report being very enthusiastic about voting than Democrats. The gap has narrowed to 5 points.
Kansas Constitutional Liberal Party primary election watch party in Overland Park, Kansas, Aug. 2, 2022. Supporters cheer at a network call as the Kansas Constitutional Amendment is defeated. .
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A new ABC News/Ipsos poll gives Democrats another glimmer of hope regarding the potential impact of abortion on how voters will vote this November.
Opinion polls tell voters which side to favor when one candidate supports keeping abortion legal and available and another supports limiting abortion to the exception of saving the life of the mother. About half (49%) of Americans are more likely to support a candidate who supports abortion restrictions, compared with 27% who support legal abortion. More likely to support candidates who retain access. Meanwhile, 22% of Americans say abortion doesn’t affect how they vote.
This comes after Kansas voters voted to preserve abortion rights in the state constitution, the first state-level test to shock the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. gave
In Biden’s statement on the defeat of the Kansas abortion amendment, he called on Congress to “listen to the will of the American people and restore Law’s protection as federal law.”
This ABC News/Ipsos poll will be conducted on August 5-6, 2022, using the Ipsos Public Affairs KnowledgePanel®, in English and Spanish, with a random national sample of 665 adults. was carried out. The results have a sampling error of 4.2 points including design effects. Partisanship is 29-25-40%, Democrat-Republican-Independent. Learn more about the top line of findings and methodology details here.
Ken Goldstein and Dan Markle of ABC News contributed to this report.