‘That Is Not Good’: CNN Panel Stunned By Biden’s Abysmal Approval Ratings on Immigration and Inflation
CNN panel members were stunned Thursday by a new poll showing President Joe Biden with abysmal approval ratings from voters on essential issues ahead of the 2024 election.
The panel, led by network anchor Dana Bash, reviewed a Monmouth University Poll released this week showing that Biden has a 28% approval rating on inflation and a 26% approval rating on immigration.
Recently, Biden has faced scrutiny by Republican lawmakers as well as Democratic mayors of large cities over a surge of migrants resulting in a humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week to discuss a solution to the migrant surge.
“You look at the issues and how he fairs: infrastructure, jobs, climate change, inflation, immigration — he is now 26%. That is not good,” Bash told the panel.
CNN political analyst Seung Min Kim agreed noting that the administration’s recent trip to Mexico may be due to the political pressure the president is facing because of the border. She argued:
It’s not good at all. And I think that part of the trip yesterday to Mexico by senior Biden administration officials was obviously to have these diplomatic conversations, but also to make the broader administration’s point that this is a regional issue that requires regional cooperation and sort of trying to blunt the criticism from Republicans that you’re hearing over and over saying that these were Biden’s border policy that’s causing these numbers at the border. But that certainly doesn’t change the fact that he’s under considerable political pressure over immigration and that his administration is probably preparing to make some significant compromises on immigration next month.
The panel then pointed out that Democratic mayors of some of the largest cities in the country have all joined together demanding more support from the federal government to assist with migrants from across the southern border.
“That right there is the problem that Joe Biden has, right in a nutshell,” CNN’s Kasie Hunt noted. “For a long time this conversation was these, you know, red state mayors and governors are being alarmist. And, you know, we have to be, we have to focus on humanitarian issue here.”
She added, “But this crisis has gotten worse, not better. And frankly, the strategy that these red state governors have had of sending a lot of these migrants up to blue states has worked from a political perspective. And it is very, very hard for these cities to absorb them. And, you know, the Biden team, I think, knows that. Or they wouldn’t be willing to make these concessions in these policy negotiations that they’re having with Capitol Hill.”
The White House has indicated they are open to negotiating with Republicans to bring back Trump-era immigration policies in exchange for funding aid to Ukraine.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
