By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A new Rasmussen survey has some bad news for Joe Biden and his re-election campaign, revealing more than half of likely voters saying his presidency has been unsuccessful, including 40 percent who consider it a complete failure.
According to Rasmussen, only 40 percent of likely voters think Biden’s term has been successful, while 58 percent say it has been unsuccessful. Rasmussen compares these numbers with earlier survey data about former President Donald Trump. When Trump was in the White House, 56 percent of voters considered his presidency to be successful, including 22 percent who said it was a “complete success,” the polling company noted.
Adding insult to injury for Biden, Rasmussen’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows the Delaware Democrat with 55 percent disapproval and 43 percent approving of his job performance. Breaking the numbers down, the tracking poll says only 23 percent “strongly approve” of Biden’s job performance while 44 percent “strongly disapprove.”
The Rasmussen survey was taken Feb. 5-7 from among 749 likely voters. It has a +/- sampling error of 3 percentage points and a 95 percent level of confidence.
If the overall picture isn’t bad enough, Rasmussen’s poll digs deeper to reveal Independent voters “view Trump’s presidency as more successful than Biden’s by a 19-point margin.”
“Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans believe Trump’s term in the White House was successful,” Rasmussen pollsters reported, “and 69% of Democrats think Biden’s presidency so far has been successful. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 53% judge Trump’s presidency as successful, while just 34% say Biden has been successful so far.”
If Biden expects to remain in office for a second term, he’s going to have trouble achieving that goal without plenty of Independent support. Trump’s campaign, despite all of his legal troubles—or perhaps because many people think those legal problems are politically motivated—continues to surge.
While the former president can get himself into trouble with political remarks, the current president frequently seems incoherent.
This may be a component in another discovery by the Rasmussen survey.
“It is also remarkable that a significantly larger number of Democrats view Biden as an unsuccessful president,” Rasmussen revealed, “compared to the number of Republicans who say the same of Trump. Thirteen percent (13%) of Democrats say Biden has been mostly unsuccessful and 15% view his presidency as a complete failure.”
On the other hand, “Among GOP voters, just five percent (5%) consider Trump’s presidency mostly unsuccessful, and six percent (6%) judge it a complete failure,” Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen’s survey also found that 57 percent of whites, 46 percent of black voters and 59 percent of other minorities consider Trump’s presidency at least mostly successful. On the other side of the race coin, 37 percent of whites, 54 percent of black voters and 39 percent of other minorities believe Biden’s presidency so far has been at least mostly successful.
By no great surprise, Rasmussen said Government employees (57%) are more likely than private sector workers (37%) or retirees (38%) to consider Biden’s presidency so far to be at least mostly successful.
Voters with college degrees are less likely to say Trump’s presidency was successful and women are more likely than men to judge the presidencies of both Trump and Biden as complete failures, Rasmussen discovered.
