In polling conducted Nov. 28-30, 45 percent of voters approved of Biden’s job performance and 52 percent disapproved, marking a low in his net approval rating in daily tracking after a gradual decline that was accelerated by the chaotic American withdrawal from Afghanistan in mid-August.

Neither Biden’s Nov. 15 signing of the bipartisan infrastructure bill or House Democrats’ Nov. 19 passage of the Build Back Better Act, his social spending and climate legislation, yielded any sustained boost to public sentiment about the president.

That stasis is also apparent among Democratic voters, among whom 44 percent “strongly” approve of his job performance, virtually unchanged since his infrastructure bill passed on Nov. 5.