He was impeached for the first time at the end of the year, and then the coronavirus pandemic stalled the economy. The previous month, his approval rating was 41%.

Trump, a Republican, announced that he would run for reelection on June 18, 2019. He struggled to convince Americans that the economy was improving after the financial collapse and subsequent recession, but he ultimately defeated Mitt Romney, a Republican. Obama, a Democrat, had a 48% approval rating when he announced his reelection campaign on April 4, 2011. forces entered Baghdad, Bush announced he would run for reelection on May 16, 2003. 11 attacks of 2001 led Bush, a Republican, to invade Afghanistan, followed by another war in Iraq. His approval rating had sunk to 22% amid economic trouble and the Korean War. Truman announced on March 29, 1952, that he would not seek a second full term after losing in the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Truman was expected to lose the general election to Thomas Dewey, a Republican, but he pulled off a narrow victory. He had an approval rating of 53% in a poll conducted two months earlier. Truman decided to run for a full term of his own, and he announced his candidacy on March 8, 1948. He was vice president when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in 1945, near the end of World War II. That’s good news for Biden, who appears to have avoided any significant challengers. One theme: Primary battles are a sign of whether a president will win reelection. We went back to look at when modern presidents announced their decisions to seek a second term, what their Gallup approval ratings were at the time and how things turned out for them. He’s pushing forward even though polls show a majority of Americans don’t want to see him run again. WASHINGTON (AP) - No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

A War to be Won by Williamson Murray