New Jersey still mixed on Biden, Monmouth poll shows

As he approaches the start of his third year in the White House, President Joe Biden continues to struggle to gain popularity in New Jersey, a state that he carried by sixteen percentage point in the 2020 election, a new Monmouth University poll released today shows.

Biden has upside-down job approval ratings of 46%-48% heading into a year when all 120 seats in the New Jersey legislature are up for grabs.    He was at 47%-49% in an April 2022 Monmouth poll, a number that is statistically the same.

At the same point in 2019, President Donald Trump was at 37%-58% in New Jersey.

Among independents, Biden is heavily underwater at 59%-34%.  He’s at 83%-12% among Democrats and 6%-90% among Republicans.

Biden is at 44%-50% in North Jersey, 49%-45% in Central Jersey, and 44%-49% in South Jersey.  He’s at 41%-53% among men and 50%-43% among women.  The poll puts the president at 49%-42% among residents ages 18-34, 40%-53% among New Jerseyans ages 35-54, and is at 49%-48% among people over the age of 55.

Since taking office, Biden gas dropped from his high of 55%-40% in a May 2021 Monmouth poll.

The Monmouth University Poll was conducted from January 5-9 with a sample size of 809 New Jersey adults and a margin of error of +/- 4.7%.