Even before the Afghanistan debacle that arguably marks the low point of President Joe Biden’s tenure thus far, a Trafalgar Group survey released this week found that a plurality of likely voters “strongly disapprove” of job performance thus far.

The survey asked respondents, “How do you think Joe Biden is handling his job as President?” Resp0nses showed Biden earning a slightly negative overall rating, with 46.5% approving and 47.5% disapproving. Six percent expressed no opinion. Among those who disapproved, a plurality, or 41.6%, “strongly” disapproved.

This came in the wake of Real Clear Politics’s average of multiple polls demonstrating that Biden’s approval rating sank to 49% on August 11. Those polls included the Economist/YouGov, Quinnipiac, and The Hill/HarrisX.

The surveys come as Biden’s administration threatens to impose new restrictions related to the COVID pandemic, which is unpopular enough. But now that Biden is being blamed by even the mainstream media for the sudden fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, that job performance disapproval will no doubt sink to a deserved new low.

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Reacting to Trump Supporters Swarming the Capitol: Biden Calls Them “Thugs,” “Domestic Terrorists,” and “White Supremacists” and Says That Police Are Racist

On January 7, 2021 — in response to a January 6 incident where several hundred Trump supporters had swarmed into the Capitol building in Washington to protest what they viewed as an illegitimate presidential election outcome — Biden made the following remarks to the nation:

“Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation…. They weren’t protesters — don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob of insurrectionists, domestic terrorists…. The past four years, we’ve had a president who’s made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of law clear in everything he has done. He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset. And yesterday was the culmination of that unrelenting attack.

“He’s attacked the free press who dared to question his power, repeatedly calling the free press ‘the enemy of the people.’ Language at the time he first used it, I and others said, has long been used by autocrats and dictators all over the world to hold on to power …

“He’s attacked our intelligence services, who dared tell the American people the truth about the effort of a foreign power to elect him four years ago, choosing instead to believe the word of Vladimir Putin over the word of those who sworn their allegiance to this nation, many of whom had risked their lives in the service of this nation.

“He deployed the United States military, tear-gassing peaceful protesters in pursuit of a photo opportunity in the service of his reelection, even holding the Bible upside down….

“And then yesterday … Inciting a mob to attack the Capitol, to threaten elected representatives of the people of this nation, and even the vice president, to stop the Congress from ratifying the will of the American people in a just-completed free and fair election….

“No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw it in plain view. And I hope it’s sensitized them to what we have to do….

In short, Biden and the Democrats resolved to exploit the events of January 6 at the Capitol to the fullest extent possible.

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