Trump’s favorability rises, Biden’s falls in poll

Tara Suter

27 June 2024 at 10:51 am·2-min read

Former President Trump’s favorability has risen while President Biden’s has fallen, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday.

The survey, conducted June 3-23, found Trump’s favorability up 4 points from December, now sitting at 46 percent, while Biden’s has fallen 4 points 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 lead-up to the 2020 election, and were tied twice last year.

According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s averages of favorability polls, 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 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 on 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’s 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 match-up, 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 percent to 43.9 percent.

The Gallup poll, conducted June 3-23, featured 1,005 respondents and has a margin of sampling error of 4 percentage points.

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