South Iowa News

President Joe Biden’s job approval rating in a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll has tumbled at least 12 points over the last several months, settling at just 31%. 

Pollsters note the numbers fall below former President Donald Trump’s lowest ratings which was 35% in December 2017. 

In addition more than six in 10 respondents, 62%, said they disapprove of Biden’s performance. 

“This is a bad poll for Joe Biden, and it’s playing out in everything that he touches right now,” pollster J. Ann Selzer told the Des Moines Register, according to Yahoo News.

With the poll having been conducted over a four-day period in mid-September from among 805 Iowa residents, some like former Trump staffer Corey Lewandowski insist he’s not surprised.

“Is anyone really surprised?” he posted on Twitter.

Polled on a number of different issues, Biden drew his lowest marks from voters over his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, with just over one in five voters, 22%, supporting his actions, compared to 69% saying they disapproved.

Among Democrats, 61% sided with the president’s handling of the issue, as opposed to 94% of Republicans who disapproved. Reports are the U.S. left behind hundreds of American passport-holders and thousands of permanent residents, Yahoo News reported.

An assortment of various other recent polls have also found Biden’s approval rating to be tanking in the wake of his Afghan actions, including an ABC News/Washington Post poll from this month where just 44% of respondents approved of his job performance, Yahoo News reported.

After twice voting for former President Barack Obama, Iowa voters went for Trump during both of his runs for the White House in 2016 and 2020, The Hill reported.