the president now under 40% approval on handling of the economy. the other big issue and more dramatic drop for biden about to show you here. covid. the pandemic. when he came to office, this was where he got his strongest marks as president. about a year ago nearly 70% of voters approved of how biden was handling the pandemic. again, the numbers continue to slip. he was still in positive territory just a few months ago. no longer. our latest numbers have a majority disapproving of how the president s handling the pandemic. only 44% approving of it. interestingly, too, speaking of the pandemic. with the omicron variant, with the treatments, with vaccines, an interesting bit of a shift picked up on pap morning consulate pill out last week have been asking folks as you think about the pandemic, are you more concerned with the effect it s having on public health in this country, or the effect it s having on the economy? consistently for the last two years, it s been public health
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polls, when it comes to congressional job performance 62% disapprove of the job performance going on because it is been so focused on impeachment, the gallup poll shows a slight majority disapproving of impeachment. what is your reaction to those numbers? congress doesn t do anything. for someone like me who ran for congress to do things, to move the country forward it is a frustrating time. the american people are frustrated. we haven t addressed infrastructure, drug pricing, so many things we could be doing rather than this sham impeachment and the american people are frustrated by it. heather: the delay passing the usmc a which will be up in the house today. never a question there were enough votes to pass this trade deal but pelosi held it for a year.
do you sense in the white house an increasing confidence or optimism? oh, most definitely. this president will definitely tout my numbers are great. we saw that not long ago on twitter when his numbers were moving. the negative piece was that the vast majority still do not approve of you. you have the vast majority disapproving. this president takes any positive step up and says this is a building block. but the question is, how long will he be able to build? let s see what happens in the next couple days when it comes to issues of having to deal with the budget or cr and having to deal with daca again. those sensitive issues are what brings it back down, when you deal with the issues of the race or did he say this or did he say that or did he tweet this or tweet that. right now, this is a moment. but let s what happens. and to add to that, the president insists to his allies and friends all the time that approval rating it not his actual approval rating. he insists to people it s
the polls say the meeting was inappropriate. almost half of all republicans, though, called the meeting appropriate in the numbers. what does the white house take from that? most people think it s inappropriate, but most republicans, if you look at it, say it was appropriate in their view. if you look at the way this white house has responded to the polling of the last six months, this russia matter included, kate, it is they have looked at the results of their own folks and making sure their base stays with them as much as posz zable. it does not look like they have taken the polls over the last six months that show majority disapproving or a majority disapproving of a particular issue and course correct on that. they look at the numbers and say, hey, we are a partisan polarized world. enough of our votes believe in this and we can continue down this path.
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