No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.
However, FDR was re-elected twice and could have won a 4th term, had circumstances allowed. The Left and the entitlement class love zerO, just as their grandparents loved FDR. There is absolutely no rational aspect to this love. It is purely tribal.
To a vast percentage of the electorate, today, there would be nothing worse than a Republican POTUS. They will not stand for it. They will not consider it. They, literally, would rather die.
You are mistaken. FDR won a 4th term; he died during it.