Poll: Biden approval rating hits new low after Afghanistan withdrawal
US President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped to 43 percent only eight months after his inauguration, a new poll revealed.
According to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday, majority of the US citizens, 53 percent, disapproved of the US president’s performance.
The rating is the lowest number Gallup has recorded so far for the first-term president.
Following the chaotic withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan, which led to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, Biden’s approval rating has dropped below 50 percent over multiple polls.
Biden’s exit, which effectively ended the United States’ two-decade war in Afghanistan, has also led to an infighting in the US, where politicians blame each other for the return of the Taliban to power.
Meanwhile, the US president pinned the blame on former US President Donald Trump, reiterating that he has inherited a bad withdrawal agreement.
He even insisted no mistakes were made in crafting the US exit plan, saying "the idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens."
However, Trump, whose administration brokered a deal with the Taliban in Qatar in 2020, maintains what America sees now “never would have happened” during his tenure.
Under the deal, Washington was obliged to pull out all of its forces from Afghanistan by the end of May 2021.
Biden missed the deadline. All US military forces were pulled out from Afghanistan on August 31, two weeks after the country fell to the Taliban.
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