Biden’s approval rating rises, aided by vaccine distribution

The American public does not think that President Biden alone deserves credit for the widespread availability of Covid-19 vaccines, but he overwhelmingly likes the work he does to distribute them – and this gives a high ranking for job approval .

This is one of the results of a poll by the Pew Research Center released on Thursday, which provides a portrait of a country that is increasingly positive about its political leaders.

Since Mr. Biden approaching his 100th day in office, his approval was at 59 percent, according to the poll, while 39 percent of respondents did not approve of his performance in office. That’s a small but significant increase from his 54 percent approval rating in a Pew poll last month.

In the most recent survey, two-thirds of the country received the $ 1.9 billion Covid-19 aid package, which Mr. Biden recently signed it, approved. Forty-nine percent of all respondents said they expect the package to have a positive effect on them and their family; only 14 percent thought it would negatively affect them.

The president has achieved particularly high marks with regard to the management and distribution of coronavirus vaccines. Seventy-two percent of Americans said his government did well, including 55 percent of Republicans and independents who lean toward the GOP, according to the poll.

The public gives the predecessor of mr. Pray for some credit for making vaccines available: 55 percent said the Trump administration has done a good or excellent job of supporting the development of coronavirus vaccines. But less, 43 percent, said the Trump White House was successful in vaccinating and distributing vaccines.

Forty-four percent of respondents said Biden had changed the “tone and nature” of the political discourse for the better, while only 29 percent said he had aggravated them. Republicans were an exception, with 62 percent saying he changed the conversation for the worse and 11 percent for the better.

Americans’ increasingly positive view of politicians in Washington has expanded to their representatives in Congress. For the first time in nearly two decades, half of Americans have given their approval to the work that the Democratic Democrats are doing, while 47 percent do not approve of it.

The Americans’ view of their representatives in Washington has long been rather sad, and for the Republican Republicans, public approval remains deeply negative: only 32 percent approved of their performance.

Overall, only 36 percent of the country expressed a general opinion about Congress. It has nevertheless been as high as at any point in the past decade.

Asked about their thoughts on 15 political and social issues, respondents according to the poll probably considered the affordability of health care as a very serious issue. Fifty-six percent said it, while another 30 percent said it was a moderately large problem.

The Biden administration did not place health care at the top of its priority list, in part acknowledging how thorny the problem was for previous presidents, and how divided Democrats were about whether to continue for a single-payer system.

But concerns about health care costs have certainly outweighed other issues, including federal debt (49 percent), illegal immigration (48 percent), gun violence (48 percent) and the coronavirus outbreak (47 percent) in terms of the proportion of Americans who mention the case . a big problem.

The poll was conducted from April 5 to 11 and reaches 5,109 respondents via Pew’s American Trends Panel, which uses a probability-based model to make a sample that is representative of the national population.