Opinion Today

August 30, 2021

Overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping troops in Afghanistan until all Americans, Afghans who aided US out
Quinn Scanlan, ABC News
With fewer than 4 in 10 Americans approving of President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan, there is overwhelming bipartisan support for keeping U.S. troops in the country until all Americans and Afghans who aided the United States during the 20-year war have been evacuated, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.

It's not just Afghanistan -- Americans are losing faith in Biden on many issues
Harry Enten, CNN
President Joe Biden's approval rating is at its lowest point in his presidency. In the average of polls, he stands at about 47%. That's a steady decline from the beginning of this month (51%), last month (52%) and beginning of June (54%). It would be easy to assign Biden's decline to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but, as the data shows, Biden has been trending downward for a while. The truth is that he is losing ground on a number of …