As election day draws near, public disapproval of President Joe Biden remains extremely low, and 70% of voters believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction.
In the most recent AWN-Morning Consult poll done ahead of Tuesday’s election, 55% of registered voters said they disapproved of the job Biden is doing as president, while only 42% said they approved.
Because people sometimes view midterm elections as a referendum on the president and his party, support for Democrats may be waning. As a result, many polling averages show that voters are more likely to favour Republicans. With support for Democratic congressional candidates at 48 percent, five points higher than support for Republican candidates, the AWN-Morning Consult poll stands out on this issue.
With 78 percent of respondents stating that both the economy and inflation will have a “big effect” in how they vote, the poll showed that economic worries are still on voters’ minds. In contrast, 57 percent of voters and 61 percent of voters, respectively, agreed that access to abortion would play a significant factor in their voting decisions this year.
The margin of error for the 2,005 voters surveyed between November 4 and November 5 is plus or minus 2 percentage points.
More than two-thirds of respondents said pollsters they feel political violence has increased in the past year, indicating that concerns about political violence appear to be growing among the population. The news media, social media, and politicians, according to the majority, are to blame.
Across gender, age, colour, and political ideology, 80 percent of Americans reported being worried about political violence in the country. In comparison, 78 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of independents expressed concerns about political violence, which is defined as an act of violence committed to further a political agenda.
The majority of voters indicated they don’t think there is a rise in political violence in their own states or local communities, while 65 percent said they think there has been one. More over 60% of Democrats, Republicans, and independents are part of the majority.
Most respondents to the poll, which was taken roughly a week after an armed burglar attacked the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, indicated they thought the assault was a case of political violence. A total of 63% of respondents stated they believed the incident to be either certainly or probably an act of political violence, while just 21% said they did not believe it to be such.
Voters who believed the incident to be political in nature and those who did not were sharply divided along partisan lines: 60% of Democrats felt that the attack was political, while just 23% of Republicans did. With 36% of independents agreeing that it was an act of political violence, they aligned more closely with Republicans on this issue.
Eighty-three percent of voters put political violence on the perpetrators, while seventy-five percent blame social media platforms, which have also come under fire from lawmakers for their involvement in facilitating the planning of violent assaults and the propagation of violent views.
Sixty-nine percent, including 76 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of Democrats, also blamed the news media. And according to 55% of respondents, both liberal and conservative TV celebrities are equally to accountable for political violence, as are political pundits and hosts.
Furthermore, 58 percent of people blamed former President Donald Trump for the rise in political violence. Eighty-three percent of Biden’s 2020 supporters and thirty percent of his own supporters blamed Trump.