President Biden.
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Biden keeps getting bad news. According to yet another poll, his support has dropped well below 50 percent.

The decline seems to be driven by his leadership of the chaotic, bloody withdrawal of American personnel from Afghanistan. But the continuing pandemic and disappointing economic news, including a weak jobs report on Friday, probably won't help.

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Samuel Goldman

Samuel Goldman is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, where he is executive director of the John L. Loeb, Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom and director of the Politics & Values Program. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow in Religion, Ethics, & Politics at Princeton University. His books include God's Country: Christian Zionism in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and After Nationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). In addition to academic research, Goldman's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.