Day 1,418: Biden’s favorability rating already eclipses Trump’s all-time high
Donald Trump has been a historically unpopular president. Compared day-for-day with presidents since Harry Truman in 1945, Trump has rarely been more popular than any other president.
Trump was only occasionally more popular than Truman, was never more popular than Eisenhower or JFK, was routinely outpaced by LBJ, was never more popular than Nixon and ran about even with Ford and Carter. The last five presidents — Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama — were rarely been less popular than Trump.
So it’s not particular surprising, especially considering the results of last month’s election, to see the president-elect, Joe Biden, already having a higher favorability than Trump. However, with a favorability rating of 55% (compared to Trump’s 42%), Joe Biden is more popular than Trump has ever been at any point since he started running for president.
A look across all the polling shows that Trump’s favorable rating has usually been in the 30s or 40s, like in the Gallup poll. In the network exit poll, it was 46%.
The highest favorable rating I could find in any live interview poll for Trump was after he won the 2016 election. His favorable rating stood at 50% in a Bloomberg News poll conducted by Selzer and Company.
Trump never actually got above 50% in any live interview poll.
Biden, by comparison, has done it multiple times. He did it in the CNN/SSRS, Fox News and New York Times/Siena College polls in October, to name a few.
Trump loves to tout polls and favorability ratings. But across the most historical and respected pollster, Trump has never been more popular than Biden is right now.
1,418 days in, 44 to go
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