A new poll found that a majority of voters blame Congressional inaction for the crisis at the border.
A Fox News poll found 81% of voters blame Congress’s lack of action as being responsible for the border situation. However, this figure is not mutually exclusive to blaming others as well, as 72% blamed President Joe Biden for lack of enforcement.
The results show some success in the Biden administration‘s strategy of attempting to pin blame on Congressional Republicans for the border after a bipartisan border security package that included aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan fell apart. Republicans, meanwhile, have pinned all the blame on Biden’s administration.
Despite the blame on Congress, however, the issue of the border was one of the only issues that largely united voters. The poll found that only 44% of Democrats believe that Biden has been mostly successful in improving border security. Less Democrats were inclined to believe it was an emergency, however, with only 20% believing as much, compared to 65% of Republicans and 31% of Independents.
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The negative perception of Biden carried into most other issues as well, with the highest approval rating on a given subject being 41% for addressing climate change and helping the black community.
The poll was conducted from Feb. 25-28, surveying 1,262 registered voters. The margin of error was +/- 2.5 percentage points.
