What’s behind Biden approval ratings slump?

The recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showed President Biden’s approval rating at 36%. Biden’s low popularity is no mystery. He inherited energy independence, afordable gas prices, historically low interest rates and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration.

Under Biden infation spiked to the highest rate in more than 40 years. Home interest rates have ballooned from less than 3% to 7%. He has asked foreign governments to pump oil he refuses to drill for domestically. He promised to shut down the Covid virus and yet people continue to get sick and die from it. He promised that the U.S. sanctions against Russia would deter Putin’s Ukrainian invasion and yet it has only emboldened him.

He promised us a safe withdrawal from Af- ghanistan and yet 12 servicemen were killed, leading to the greatest humiliation of the American military in the past 50 years. Kabul now sells billions of dollars’ worth of abandoned American military equipment to the highest bidder.

Only 37% of independents in a recent poll now support Biden. Some 70% of the public in other polls opposes a second Biden run. It is no surprise that Biden has no inclination to debate his Democratic rivals like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Kennedy is seeing rising poll numbers while Joe Biden polls under sea level.

Biden talked of promising “unity” during his presidency but Robert Kennedy might be the one to bring it to reality.

Joe Campbell Port Washington