Trump’s favorability rises, Biden’s falls in poll
Former President Trump’s favorability has risen while President Biden’s has fallen, according to a new Gallup survey.
The survey, conducted between June 3 and 23, found Trump’s favorability up 4 points from December, from 42 to 46 percent, while Biden’s has fallen from 41 to 37 percent during the same period.
The survey giant noted that Biden’s and Trump’s favorable ratings had not been separated by more than 4 points in the leadup to the 2020 election, and were tied twice last year.
According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s averages of polls on favorability, Trump’s favorability has risen from 39 percent in January to 43.4 percent now, and Biden’s has dropped from 44 percent to 41.3 percent.
Other new findings from Gallup included 46 percent of Americans surveyed saying that Trump “has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have,” compared to 38 percent who said the same for Biden.
The results come ahead of a presidential debate between Biden and Trump Thursday night in Atlanta, which will air on CNN. Trump faced criticism for his performance in the first debate with Biden back in 2020, and has since admitted he interrupted the now-president “too much,” The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman noted last week.
“He has said to people multiple times that he knows that he interrupted too much in the first debate with Biden in 2020, and having just rewatched that debate recently, it’s really striking,” Haberman said on CNN.
“I mean, we all talked about it at the time, but Biden could barely get a word in edgewise, and Biden was kind of smiling throughout as this was happening,” she added at the time.
A poll released Wednesday from The New York Times/Siena College found Trump ahead of Biden among likely voters by 4 points in a hypothetical matchup, with Trump receiving 48 percent support and Biden receiving 44 percent support.
According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s average of national polls, Trump is leading Biden, 44.6 to 43.9 percent.
The new Gallup poll, conducted June 3-23, featured 1,005 respondents and has a margin of sampling error of 4 percentage points.