Oh look, the pathetic loser is just as unpopular as he ever was. Look how cramped and small that line is. Meanwhile, Joe Biden comes in with good will among a majority of Americans:
A new Gallup poll finds that President-elect Joe Biden has a 55% favorable rating and a 41% unfavorable rating.The same poll gives President Donald Trump a 42% favorable rating and a 57% unfavorable rating.
What’s the point: The 2020 election was, like almost every election involving an incumbent, mostly about voters’ feelings toward said incumbent. Not enough attention, however, has been paid to the fact that the challenger was a fairly popular guy. He did not allow Trump to make this election a choice of the lesser of two evils.
Indeed, Biden is more popular than Trump has been at any point since he started running for president in June 2015.
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.Unlike Trump, Biden’s favorable rating is now usually above his unfavorable rating. The national exit poll pegged him at a 52% favorable rating to 46% unfavorable rating, for example.
Biden’s favorable rating right now looks similar to Barack Obama‘s heading into his second term in 2013.This gives an insight: Biden being more popular than unpopular isn’t abnormal. What was abnormal was that Trump was elected, despite being so unpopular. Perhaps even more unusual is that he could never get above 50% during his presidency, which is unheard of in modern American politics.
It is utterly ridiculous that we are even having to think about this stupid voter fraud fraud, and even worse that the entire Republican Party, except for a few local GOP officials who refuse the pretend they are terrible at their jobs, is going along with it.
He is and has been an unpopular president. There have been others that dipped lower than him. But there has never been one who never had even a moment of majority support during his term. And now he’s lost his re-election because he just couldn’t do it.
Still, we all obsessed by the minority of people who love him because we still can’t believe that so many people could possible like this guy.
But they do:
By the way, most losers either stay the same or gain in favorability after the election, probably because they behave with graciousness and class and people appreciate it. This president is losing in favorability.
This poll was taken in the week after the election. I’d be curious to see what it is today:
