Joe Biden 2024: What Is POTUS' New Year's Resolution, Approval Rating This Election Year?

While 2023 had been a mixed bag for him overall, Joe Biden is hoping that 2024 will be a lot better as his approval ratings have been tanking despite the economy slowly growing stronger. After having dinner at a restaurant in the US Virgin Islands, the president also revealed his New Year's resolution.

As he exited the restaurant with Dr. Jill Biden, the POTUS revealed that his New Year's resolution for 2024 was to "come back next year." This comes amid low approval ratings in what may be a very competitive election year for him.

According to Fox News, he was asked by one of the reporters in the US territory about what his New Year's resolution was, and to this, he answered, "To come back next year, that's the biggest one right now."

Joe Biden Still Having Low Poll Numbers Despite Having Notable Wins in Governance

Meanwhile, Biden's approval numbers remain dismal, even though he has made significant strides on the economy, foreign relations, government funding, and infrastructure over the last few months.

FiveThirtyEight's live average poll tracker found that Biden has a net disapproval rating of 16.5 points, with only a 38.9 percent approval rating and a 55.4 percent disapproval rating, However, Newsweek reported that this is still not his lowest, which is 37.6 percent.

This is only a little bit higher than Donald Trump's lowest approval rating ever, which was at 36.4 percent in December 2017. The current Biden approval rating is also less than 1% higher than when Trump left office in 2021, and this was after the January 6 Capitol insurrection which even his biggest allies started abandoning him.

Currently, Democratic voters are preferring another candidate, with deep concerns regarding his age of 81 being one of the major factors. This comes even though he is only three years older than his top Republican rival, Donald Trump.

US Economy in 'Real Momentum' Despite Joe Biden's Low Approval Ratings

While Joe Biden is struggling with his low approval ratings coming into 2024, the US economic outlook remains very positive as the new year is about to begin.

Jared Bernstein, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, revealed that thanks to the higher consumer spending over the holiday season, real wage gains over the last nine months and a jump in consumer confidence, the US economy seems to be having a very good start to 2024.

Bernstein added that "President Joe Biden would continue to focus on lowering costs for Americans if he won a second term in the November 2024 presidential election," according to Reuters. "If you actually look at the trend in the economy ... I think you see some real momentum getting us in a good start for the new year," he noted.

This is backed up by hard data too, as consumer confidence increased to a five-month high in December. Meanwhile, the University of Michigan's benchmark Consumer Sentiment Index had its biggest jump in more than three decades at 14%. New data also showed that there is growing confidence among Americans that inflation was finally trending lower.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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