Biden's self-imposed ceiling

Published May 04 2021 at 10:00 AM GMT

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Just past the 100-day mark, Biden's approval sits at 54 percent.
That's quite a bit better than Donald Trump's anemic 42 percent at the equivalent moment of his presidency.
But as FiveThirtyEight notes, Biden's approval is nonetheless "lower than any other newly elected president's going back to Dwight Eisenhower's in 1953.
Yet Democrats seem increasingly willing to accept that this might be the best they can reasonably hope for.
The country is sharply divided, they say, and so is Congress.