Ryan Randazzo
Arizona Republic
President Joe Biden is visiting Arizona this week, where polling indicates the president faces an uphill battle to carry the state as he did — narrowly — in 2020.
Nationwide, Biden is sitting at about a 41% approval rating with voters, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released in late July.
That poll from late June showed the president’s approval was basically flat over the past 18 months. It included 1,220 adults and was conducted June 22-26, and designed to represent the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
“Inflation still is high in Arizona and gas prices are some of the highest in the nation. Illegal immigration is still a massive problem. Rightly or wrongly, Joe Biden gets a lot of that blame,” Republican consultant Barrett Marson said. “He is an unpopular president in Arizona.”
Not that former President Donald Trump is doing particularly well. The likely GOP nominee for 2024’s presidential race also has seen his ratings among voters change much over the past year, and he sits at about 35%, according to Pew Research Center polling. Trump has lost a little ground among Republicans in the past year, with 63% of poll respondents having an unfavorable rating of him.
Drilling down into what polling data is available on Arizona, things seem even worse for Biden.
