Ipsos Core Political : Presidential Approval Tracker (04/13/2022)
Washington, DC, April 13, 2022 – This week’s Ipsos’ Core Political has President Biden with a 41% approval rating as three in five Americans believe the country is off on the wrong track.
Detailed Findings
Three in five Americans believe the country is off on the wrong track, Republicans (84%) and independents (67%) are most likely to believe this. Democrats are more divided, with 47% saying the country is headed in the right direction, and 39% say it is off on the wrong track.
Over a quarter (27%) of Americans believe the economy is the most important problem facing the nation today. Concern over immigration has increased by four points since last week and is now the second most important issue. Immigration (16%) remains a top concern for Republicans while it is only a peripheral issue among Democrats (3%) and independents (2%). War and foreign conflict (8%) which has been a top-two issue for the past few weeks is now in a three-way tie with crime or corruption (8%) and the environment and climate (8%) for third place.
A majority of Americans (53%) continue to disapprove of President Joe Biden’s performance in office, while 41% approve.
Three in four (77%) Democrats approve of President Biden, but only 31% of independents and 12% of Republicans do.
When asked which issues President Biden should prioritize, over half of Americans say the economy (52%), while another fifth of Americans say immigration (20%) and employment and jobs (20%). This time last year, Americans’ top priority was COVID-19 (37%).
While a majority of Americans want Biden to prioritize the economy, Americans disagree about which issues should come next. Democrats would like Biden to work on the environment (24%), unifying the country (22%), and COVID-19 (22%). Republicans want Biden to prioritize immigration (43%), while independents want employment and jobs (27%) to be a priority.
Nearly half of Americans (49%) approve of the way Biden has been handling COVID-19, this time last year his approval on this issue was at 61%. Americans’ approval of the environment has also dropped by seven points (45% from 52%). Finally, half of Americans used to approve of the way Biden was handling the economy (50%) but only 36% do so now.
Democrats are most supportive of the way Biden has been handling the nations’ issues with their approval highest for COVID-19 (84%) and employment and jobs (80%).
About the Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between April 11-12, 2022. For this survey, a sample of 1,005 Americans age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 444 Democrats, 369 Republicans, and 130 independents. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval of ± 5.7 percentage points for Democrats, ± 6.2 percentage points for Republicans, and ± 10.5 percentage points for independents.
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