President Joe Biden’s latest approval numbers came in on Sunday, and the best numbers of any poll last month came from none other than Fox News.
Network, which frequently takes issue with Biden’s administration, released an apology. Updated survey for SundayGiving him a 47% approval rate. Comparative to all other surveys released over the last month, Fox’s numbers are several points higher, and mark one of Biden’s highest ratings since November.
FiveThirtyEight is a website that aggregates these data and tracks reliability of pollsters. “based on the historical accuracy and methodology of each polling organization’s polls,”Fox News receives an A rating
Fox News did however point out the President’s high disapproval ratings in other areas.
Their survey revealed that52% disapprove his handling the pandemic (up 38% from April 2021), 54% disapprove his handling foreign policy (up 41% from April 2021), 58% disapprove his handling the economy (up 42% from April 2021), and 59% disapprove his handling border security (up 51% from April 2021).
A poll shows that there is a slight decline in support for potential Republican candidates and an increase in support for Democrats for the election for Congress.
The question was: If you could vote today for Congress, what would it be like? [ROTATE]The Republican or Democratic candidate for your district? [IF UNDECIDED: Well, if you had to vote, which way would you lean?]
The results were as follows: 43% chose a Democratic candidate, 44% chose a Republican, and 11% undecided. In October 2021, these numbers were 39% (D), 46%(R), 12% and 11% (U).
When asked which party – the Democrats or Republicans – they felt would do a better job on specific issues, Democrats were favored in climate change, racism, health care, bringing the country together, the coronavirus pandemic, education and protecting American democracy. Republicans were preferred for taxes, the federal deficit and immigration.
Biden was recently criticized by the network for the fact that there has been a 7% rise in inflation in the United States since December. However, the network made a mistake by doing so. The segment featured a photo of empty shelves taken from an NPR 2011 story about Japan. It was superimposed with the words and a picture by President Joe Biden. “EMPTY SHELVES JOE.”
After Twitter users pointed out the error, the network issued an apology.Correction during the next day’s broadcast. “A quick word before we go, during last night’s broadcast we aired a graphic that was believed to contain a current image of empty shelves here in the U.S. It was not and we regret the error,”They agreed.
Click here to view the entire Fox News survey. Here.