Joe Biden’s allies probably hoped that this weekend’s NBC News poll would show, as some other pollsters have, that the president’s popularity was improving along with the economy and consumer sentiment. Those hopes proved unfounded.
But then, why would the administration convince itself that the president’s relative standing with voters was an entropic phenomenon? It’s not just that Biden’s policies (from immigration to crime and violence to the economy broadly) are deeply unpopular. He is unpopular.
