ABC News anchor tanks Gov. Newsom's ridiculous claim about Biden's presidency with indisputable fact: 'Why is that?'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is hitting the campaign trail for President Joe Biden. But he hit a speed bump on Sunday when ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl challenged Newsom's assertion that Biden is the best modern president.

Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Newsom told Karl he agrees with Michelle Obama's fears about the upcoming election. To help Biden win, Newsom explained that he is hitting the campaign trail to inform voters of the "extraordinary successes" of the Biden administration. Emphasizing those alleged accomplishments, he said, will ensure Donald Trump doesn't win in November.

"It's not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts. We have the best three-year record of any modern American presidency. Period. Full stop," Newsom asserted.

But Karl quickly found the problem with Newsom's narrative.

"Except for the big thing: approval. Biden's approval is historically low," Karl noted. "Why is that?"

Newsom, however, failed to form a coherent response and conveniently claimed that "everybody's approval" in the world is going down.

"Everybody ... everybody ... we're all ... everybody's approval — across the spectrum. You find exceptions to that. Look, it's been hard, globally, the last six, seven years," he said.

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As Karl implied, the data shows that what Newsom is selling simply isn't true.

In fact, while Newsom claims Biden is the best president in modern American history, a recent Gallup analysis shows that that Biden is one of the worst modern American presidents, boasting the worst job approval rating since Jimmy Carter, a one-term president.

Biden's average job-approval rating from Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024, according to Gallup, was 39.8%. That's a problem for Biden because every president since Dwight Eisenhower who won re-election had a fourth-year approval rating average of at least 50%; Barack Obama was the only exception, when his fourth-year average approval rating topped out at 48.1%.

That low approval rating, Gallup explained, means Biden has a "bigger hill to climb" if he wants to win re-election.

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