MSNBC Hallie Jackson Reports June 4, 2024 20:41:00
The start of his third year as president and jimmy carter's approval rating was 42.5%. he see him here delivering the state of the union address at 1979. joe biden approval rating the average 42.8%. so similar there. and coming off the 1978 midterm elections, they weren't great for democrats but they weren't that bad for democrats either. a bit like the midterms last year for joe biden's democratic party and the big story with carter and with the country there in the late 1970s, it was inflation, it was gas prices, it was a bad feeling in the country about where the economy was. where the coun...