A new poll is now showing that a majority of Americans are not happy with President Biden’s performance in regards to the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
As The Daily Wire reports:
A new poll found that a clear majority of Americans place blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the shoulders of President Joe Biden, and an even larger majority want the Biden administration to open up domestic oil production, including a majority of Democrats.
The poll of more than 3,000 registered voters, conducted by HarrisX and obtained by Newsweek, also found that a clear majority of voters want the U.S. to increase its domestic oil production to combat skyrocketing prices at the gas pump. What’s more, a plurality of voters said that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine would make them more likely to vote for Republicans in the upcoming midterms.
Asked who was “more to blame about the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” 58% of respondents put more blame on the Biden administration, while 42% put the onus on former President Trump’s foreign policy. Voters were largely divided on party lines, Newsweek reported, but a large majority of independents, 66%-34%, put the blame on Biden. Even when given more choices to answer, a plurality of voters, 40%, blamed Biden, while just 26% blamed Trump, 24% blamed neither Biden nor Trump, and 10% blamed both of them.
On the domestic front, voters were asked, in light of the invasion of Ukraine and gas prices skyrocketing as a result, whether or not the Biden administration should scale back its emphasis on climate change and move to open up oil and natural gas exploration within the U.S. Another massive majority, 69% said “yes,” they did want the U.S. to open up more drilling, while just 31% said no. Notably, even a majority of Democrats, 53%-47%, favored opening up domestic energy production, while only 30% of independents did not favor more energy production.
