To hear the Democrats tell it, the policies of the Trump administration have been a catastrophic failure and Americans are in a state of near-revolt. But the truth is more or less the opposite. Today Rasmussen published charts comparing approval of President Joe Biden with that of President Trump. These are monthly averages, so daily ups and downs are smoothed out:
President Trump is markedly more popular than Joe Biden was, and his approval has held essentially steady since his inauguration. You may say that Biden represents a low bar, and of course that is true. But up to the bitter end, Democrats at least claimed to believe that Biden was doing a bang-up job.
This chart is similar, but it shows Rasmussen’s Approval Index for Biden and Trump. The Approval Index is the difference between those who strongly approve, and those who strongly disapprove:
There are those who hate President Trump, of course, but there were many more who strongly disapproved of Biden’s job performance.
The bottom line is that President Trump hasn’t lost the support of the American people, and he continues to enjoy the broad base of support that he had at the beginning of his term.
As I have said before, I don’t know whether Rasmussen’s polling is more accurate than that of other pollsters. But Rasmussen polls presidential approval every day, using a consistent methodology, and it polls only likely voters. The consistent methodology and the fact that Rasmussen is constantly in the field means that trends can be followed accurately across time, as in the above charts.
