[Global Times reporter Lin Ri Chen Kang Liu Yupeng] "More than 70% (71%) of Americans think that the United States is going the wrong way." The latest opinion poll released by National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) on October 31st local time shocked many American media. The poll results also show that the support rate of US President Biden has been "steadily declining", and his latest support rate is only 42%. In the past year, faced with the out-of-control COVID-19 epidemic, rising inflation rate and disappointing employment figures, Americans have become more and more angry, and the chaos shown by the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan has become the laughing stock of the world. CNN is worried that Biden’s visit comes at a time when the domestic view of him is becoming more and more pessimistic, which may challenge the international leadership of the United States. The New York Times lamented that "the world position of the United States is collapsing".
"This is a flashing red light."
According to the latest NBC poll, 71% of adults believe that the United States is on the wrong path. This figure is 8 percentage points higher than that in August. Among those who hold this view, Republicans are the majority (93%), but nearly half of them are Democrats (48%) and most of them are neutrals (70%). At the same time, most Americans disapprove of Biden’s work performance, and nearly 60% people have a negative view of Biden’s economic management since he took office nine months ago.
"When you see that 71% people think that the United States is on the wrong track, this is a flashing red light." Poll expert McInturff said, "These public opinion data tell us that the situation (in the United States) is not very good." According to the poll, for the future of the United States, only 41% of the respondents think that the best era in the United States is behind, while 53% say that the best era has passed.
NBC said that Biden’s government had just passed through a difficult summer and early autumn. In addition to the out-of-control epidemic and the sharp increase in the number of deaths, it also had to face the international influence after the chaotic withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, the rising inflation rate, disappointing employment figures and legislative troubles caused by the infighting of the Democratic Party. According to the report, in this opinion poll, 42% people agreed with Biden’s overall work, which was 7 percentage points lower than that in August. The number of people dissatisfied with Biden’s work reached 54%, an increase of 6 percentage points over August. From the historical data, Biden’s support rate (42%) is the lowest among previous presidents in the same period except Trump (37% in the same period in 2017).
Polls show that Americans are most dissatisfied with Biden’s economic policies, and only 40% of Americans agree with Biden’s government’s handling of the economy, which has dropped by 7 percentage points since August. In the aspects of border security, inflation, crime control, national security, economy and government efficiency, the support rate of the Democratic Party lags far behind that of the Republican Party. What is even more embarrassing for Biden is that only 37% of the respondents think that he can be the president of the United States, and 28% think that he can unite the country. In contrast, the proportion of respondents who think that he is not qualified for the presidency and cannot unite the country exceeds 50%. In response to this poll, Howard, a polling expert at the Hart Research Association of the United States, said: "The Democratic Party is facing an American whose views on President Biden have turned sharply negative since April. Biden’s commitment, ability and stability in difficult times have all been questioned. " Hart, another polling expert, said: "People voted for Biden to pursue stability and calm, but now they get instability and chaos."
"A state of steep and dangerous decline"
"Idiot, the most important thing is the economy." On October 31, CNN10 once again mentioned the famous slogan that Clinton defeated Bush in the general election. CNN said that from supply chain chaos to shortage of workers, the US economic recovery encountered severe challenges in the third quarter of this year. The report of the Ministry of Commerce shows that the economic growth rate of the United States in the third quarter (annualized) was only 2%. Supply chain crisis is everywhere, prices continue to soar, factories are waiting for materials and parts, and consumers are waiting for goods. American industrial production fell by 1.3% in September as manufacturers struggled with the shortage of materials and labor. The report also said that the most unbearable thing for the people is that the inflation rate in September announced by the United States on October 29 continued to rise, increasing by 4.4% year-on-year, which is the fastest growth rate since 1991. Excluding food and energy items, the core price index in September increased by 3.6% year-on-year, continuing the highest level in nearly 30 years. The report feels that the American people may have to spend the most expensive Thanksgiving and Christmas in their lives. According to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture, food prices in the United States on Thanksgiving Day have generally increased by more than 10% compared with last year. For example, the price of potatoes has increased by 13% and the price of frozen turkey has increased by 27%.
Hannity, the host of Fox TV in the United States, said that the poor and middle class in the United States are suffering the most because of the 30-year high inflation rate. Middle-income families spend an extra $2,100 a year on food, fuel and housing. He said that this is an "inflation tax" created by the Biden administration. "These crises could have been prevented, but the policies and proposals of the Biden administration will only make everything worse." Hannity said that the United States is in a "steep and dangerous state of decline" and "Biden’s radical green new deal will not have a solution. Sadly, we don’t even know if Biden really knows what happened. "
Biden is obviously anxious, too. On October 31st, during his participation in the G20 Rome Summit, he held a "Global Supply Chain Resilience Summit" with the leaders of 14 countries to try to solve the supply chain crisis in the United States. However, in an interview on the same day, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Butigig poured cold water on it, saying that the supply chain crisis in the United States was the result of the spread of the epidemic, and if the epidemic could not be ended, the supply chain crisis would continue.
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), by the end of October, the vaccination completion rate in the United States was only 57.5%, which was far behind by many other countries in the world. Japan, the latest among the G7 countries to start vaccination, has announced that 70% of the total population has been vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. The New York Times said on November 1st that the epidemic situation in the United States has eased, but the number of new deaths in a single day (average of 7 days) still reached 1,346. As of the 1st, the cumulative number of deaths in COVID-19 has exceeded 5 million, and the cumulative number of deaths in the United States is close to 750,000, which still ranks first.
The future American dream will be "how to survive"
The New York Times said that at the beginning of Biden’s administration, Americans were generally optimistic, expecting this administration to fulfill its promise to overcome the epidemic before July 4, ease the humanitarian crisis on the border, repair the allies destroyed during Trump’s period, and withdraw troops safely from Afghanistan before September 11. However, all the expectations have deviated, and there is little indication that the government has considered possible problems. According to the report, the failure of Biden’s administration will not only result in a change of administration in the United States, but "the change of global order will make us poorer and more vulnerable".
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zacharova recently posted on social media that the United States has frequently criticized and sanctioned human rights in other countries recently, but if you look at the data of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you will know that the United States itself is experiencing the most serious internal political and social human rights crisis. She wrote that since 2019, the absolute murder rate in the United States has increased by one third, which has actually brought the United States back to the period when gangs in Los Angeles and organized crime in Chicago were rampant. In addition, the data of crimes motivated by racial hatred are particularly impressive. According to FBI data, the number of such crimes against Asians has almost doubled, and the number against African-Americans has increased to 1.5 times. Zacharova said that if this trend continues, as sociologists have pointed out, the so-called "American dream" will no longer be "going to success", but "how to survive this year".
Washington post said that there have been widespread anti-Biden slogans in the United States recently, and people’s anger is not directed at Biden personally, but at the country he leads. "Biden is an incarnation. He is like a symbol of American decline."
On the 1st, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled "The biggest challenge of Biden’s trip to Europe is to make the world still believe in the leadership of the United States". However, after the article, some American readers left a message questioning: "Biden led the United States to fight the epidemic but caused 750,000 deaths in the United States. He led the American economy but spent trillions of dollars to keep prices rising. Can he really convince the world of American leadership? "
