The poll showed that among registered voters, 47% approve of Biden's performance and 50% disapprove. Biden (45%) continues to cling to a slight edge over both Trump (43%) and DeSantis (42%) on whom voters would choose if the 2024 election were held today.
Far from collapsing at the official start of his 2024 effort, then, Biden’s job approval and standing against his potential Republican rivals have remained remarkably consistent. If anything, the president has shown some small signs of improvement in recent weeks.
Support for Biden on this measure was mired in the mid-30s or lower for much of 2022, and has ranged in the mid- to upper 40s since December. Now, at 52%, it has never been higher.Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an event in the White House Rose Garden on May 1. For one thing, anxiety about the president’s age — at 80, he is the oldest person ever to occupy the office — may be growing.
At 76, Trump isn’t much younger than his successor. Yet just 48% of Americans are at least somewhat concerned about Trump’s health and mental acuity, and just 41% think he is too old for a second term . The difference here is largely attributable to partisan attitudes. Nearly half of Democrats are willing to say Biden is too old for another stint in the Oval Office, while just a quarter of Republicans are willing to say the same about Trump.
It’s not unusual for vice presidents to have mediocre job numbers; at 40% approve to 46% disapprove, Harris’s mirror Biden’s. But it is striking how unfavorably Harris’s readiness rating compares with her predecessor's. Prior to the 2020 election, 54% of Americans considered Vice President Mike Pence qualified to take over as president, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll from August of that year; just 39% did not.
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