Biden’s approval rating at 41% while Harris sits at 36%

President Joe Biden’s approval rating continues to stagnate, while Vice President Kamala Harris’s approval rating is slipping in a new poll as the duo prepare to run for a second term.

Biden’s approval sits at 41%, which is about where he averages, in the new Monmouth University poll. Harris’ approval rating, meanwhile, was at an all-time low of 36%.

The president’s average approval rating is 43%, according to him Five thirty eight. The vice president average is 38%, according to the statistics blog.

The president has not formally announced that he will seek another four years in the White House, but he has said he intends to do so.

And he has hinted that there will be an announcement soon.

At an event at the White House on Wednesday afternoon for the National Medal of the Arts, Biden noted how author Colson Whitehead, one of the honorees, had won consecutive Pulitzer Prizes.

“I’m kind of looking for back-to-back myself,” he said, provoking cheers from the crowd.

Biden has also compared his presidency to the actions of Republicans, a message that will easily translate into a re-election campaign.

Last week, he was on the West Coast raising money for the Democratic Party and touting his administration’s work to lower the cost of prescription drugs, an issue the White House considers a winning issue for them on their way. to the 2024 elections.

In his remarks, he slammed Republicans for trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Social Security and Medicare.

And he joked that lower drug prices are a widespread problem.

“It’s much more popular than me,” he said as the audience chuckled.

He spent much of the speech comparing his ideas to Republican proposals and shared, as he has often done, his family’s struggles with health care costs when his son Beau was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015.

President Joe Biden joked about a second term at a National Medal of Arts ceremony on Thursday — above, he presents a medal to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Vice President Kamala Harris with her husband Doug Emhoff

And earlier in March, he released a $6.8 trillion budget that imposes higher taxes on the wealthy, targets businesses and gives a huge boost to social programs like child care and paid family leave.

He proposed extensions to kindergarten, day care, paid family leave, elder care, housing, the child tax credit, and Medicaid — all popular programs with Democratic voters.

And it set the stage for a clash of federal priorities with Republicans, demanding federal spending cuts to reduce the deficit.