A majority of Americans do not believe President Joe Biden, or most members of Congress, deserve to be reelected.
A new Gallup survey released on Friday found that 61 percent of registered voters do not believe Biden deserves a second term.
"As would be expected, the vast majority of Democratic registered voters (82%) versus few Republican voters (3%) believe Biden should be reelected," the pollsters report. "At 29%, independent voters’ support for a second Biden term is much closer to that of Republicans than Democrats."
Regarding Congress, just 24 percent of respondents said most members of Congress deserved another term, while 67 percent said they didn't.
Still, 55 percent believe that their member of Congress deserves to be reelected.
The pollsters found, "Independents are the least likely party group to believe most members of Congress, and their own member, deserve to be reelected. Less than half of independents say their own representative should receive another term, compared with more than six in 10 Republicans and Democrats."
"The 24% who believe most members deserve reelection is lower than in all recent presidential election years except 2012, when 20% held that view in the late 2011 survey," Gallup reports. "The current figure is similar to that from 2016, but in all other years, 35% or more thought most members should be reelected, including a majority of 56% in 2000."
The poll was conducted January 2-22 among 1,011 U.S. adults. It had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
