Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024, while Americans felt safer and more prosperous during the former president's term, new CNN poll shows
A new poll has shown Donald Trump has a lead over US President Joe Biden as the campaign and Trump's criminal trial progress.
According to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, a majority of Americans say that, looking back, Trump's term as president was a success, while a large majority say Biden's has been a failure thus far.
Trump's support in the poll among registered voters remains steady at 49% in a head-to-head matchup against Biden, the same as in CNN's last national poll of the race in January, while Biden's is at 43%, not significantly different from January. 45%.
The poll says 55% of all Americans now say they view Trump's previous and only presidency as a success, while 44% view it as a failure. In a January 2021 poll conducted shortly before Trump left office and days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, 55% considered his time as president a failure.
61% say Biden's presidency so far has been a failure, while 39% say it has been a success. This is slightly worse than the 57% who considered the first year of his administration a failure, in January 2022, with 41% considering it a success.
Republicans are now more united around the idea that Trump's presidency was a success than Democrats are that Biden's was. Overall, 92% of Republicans consider Trump's term a success, while just 73% of Democrats say Biden's term has been a success so far. Among independents, 51% say Trump's presidency has been successful, while just 37% consider Biden's a success.
45% approve of Biden's handling of health care policy and 44% approve of his handling of student loan debt.
Biden's handling of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza yielded 28% approval and 71% disapproval, including an 81% disapproval mark among those under 35 and a majority disapproval among Democrats (53% ).
A large majority of all Americans, 70%, say that economic conditions in the US are bad, with many, especially Republicans, who feel this way, saying that their views would be more affected by a political change than by a change in economics. economy itself.
Among all voters, when independent candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are included in the race, Trump holds 42% to Biden's 33%, with Kennedy at 16%, West at 4 % and Stein at 3%. Kennedy gets 13% each of Biden and Trump supporters in initial bilateral showdown.
The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS from April 18 to 23 among a random national sample of 1,212 adults drawn from a probability-based panel, including 967 registered voters.
Source: www.lindaikejisblog.com