Plunge among independents drags down Biden approval ratings: poll

President Biden’s approval rating among Americans stands in negative territory at 43%, a drop of six points in just one month, according to a new Gallup poll.

Biden stands at 43% approval and 53% disapproval in the poll, which was conducted Sept. 1-17. That’s down from a 49%-48% approval/disapproval rating in Gallup's Aug. 2-17 survey. The president stood at 56%-42% in Gallup’s June poll.

The president's flagging numbers come in the wake of Biden's much criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan. And it also comes amid a surge in COVID cases this summer among mainly unvaccinated people due to the spread of the highly infectious delta variant, as the nation struggles to combat the coronavirus, the worst pandemic to strike the globe in a century.