America never more politically divided than under Biden

In Biden’s first months, the gap between approving Democrats and Republicans has been 86 percentage points. That means Biden is approved by 96% of Democrats and 10% of Republicans. He easily beat his former boss, former President Barack Obama, by seven points.

By comparison, Trump had 87% approval among Republicans and 10% among Democrats. While he bragged about his GOP approval, former President George W. Bush had a higher (89%) rating with Republicans in his early days.

While the partisan split in the nation under Biden is the headline for the new survey, it also showed widening gaps among men and women, blacks and whites, and college-educated and non-college-educated.

Notably, said Gallup, Biden is the “only recent president whose approval rating among white Americans is below 50% early in his term, at 45%.”

The survey is the latest to show the political division in America growing after the heated 2020 election. It follows another from Rasmussen that found bipartisan agreement that “cheating” helped Biden win the election.

The bottom line is that Biden will have difficulty ever uniting the country.

“The correspondence between one’s party identification and evaluation of presidents early in their terms has never been greater than it is for Biden. Much of that is tied to the growing reluctance, if not unwillingness, of partisans to support a president of the other party, even during the honeymoon period of the presidency,” said the survey analysis.

It added, “As a result, Biden not only has a greater partisan divide to bridge than his predecessors did, but he is also facing larger divides among other subgroups. Those factors make governing difficult, especially given the narrow Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and the evenly divided Senate.”