Steve Kornacki delivered a devastating report on President Joe Biden’s approval ratings on New Year’s Eve, putting the drastic numbers in some historic context.

In the final NBC poll of the year, Biden pulled just 40% approval and hit 57% disapproval. He compared that to past elections.

“How does this compare to past presidents entering the reelection year? Here, you can see it. Here’s the 40 that we have Biden at right now. These are all the final polls heading into the election year, a reelection year that NBC conducted,” he said. He put Biden’s approval up beside numbers from Donald Trump and George Bush Sr., both of whom lost reelection.

“That’s the lowest,” said Kornacki referring to Biden’s record low approval. “That’s the lowest in an NBC poll for an incumbent facing a reelection here.”

Among the top concerns for voters was Biden’s age and competence, a topic that has dogged the now 81-year old president especially over 2023.

Interestingly, both Biden and Trump lose against a generic opposite party opponent in the poll.

Joe Biden seems poised to be the Democratic nominee. What kind of year is he had politically? Well, again, he started 2023 coming off those good midterms for Democrats and his approval rating of 46/50 wasn’t that bad, but he’s taken a hit this year.

And as we start to close out the year, our final NBC poll had him at just 40% approval, 57% disapproval. How does this compare to past presidents entering the reelection year? Here? You can see it. Here’s the 40 that we have Biden at right now. These are all the final polls heading into the election year, a reelection year that NBC conducted.

You just see all the reason President Trump got beat in 2020. He was at 44 heading into his reelection year. Bush Sr. got beat in 92. He was at 52 and heading south rapidly there.

But you see how that number compares. That’s the lowest. That’s the lowest in an NBC poll for an incumbent facing a reelection here.

But it is a tight race when you poll Biden versus Trump at the start of the year and the average of the polls nationally, Biden had a two point advantage.

Now, at the end of the year, it is Trump who on average has a two point advantage here, a very, very close race, obviously. And what are the concerns of voters, the dynamics we’ll be talking about if this race does materialize? Joe Biden, of course, is the oldest president ever at this point and his physical fit, his fitness his age. But three in four voters in our poll say it’s a major or moderate concern.

Big thing. And 24 is going to be Trump’s legal situation or their convictions. What goes on in the courtroom for him? 62% right now say that’s a major or moderate concern for them. Will that number change if there’s if there’s a conviction with that number change based on how these cases start to sort out? Big question.

Obviously, we’ll be following well into 2024. And this is interesting to just there is clearly with this ballot question is showing it here is matching Trump against just a generic Democrat. Trump loses sizable matching Biden against a generic Republican.

Biden loses by double digits is just showing you broadly there’s not a big appetite for Trump versus Biden, even though it seems that each party, at least as we enter 2024, is poised to go in that direction. And that leads to this final graphic here. A poll from The Wall Street Journal recently, they included a bunch of third party options and against Biden and Trump, they added up to 17%. That’s a big question heading into 2024. Is it going to be a real third party candidate to create a wild card in this?

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.

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