More Texas voters have said they approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of COVID-19 than they did with the reactions of former President Donald Trump or current Gov. Greg Abbott.
A New University of Texas /Texas Tribune a poll of 1,200 registered voters found that 49 percent said they approve of the task Biden is doing to respond to COVID-19, and 36 percent say they do not approve.
Texas voters disapproved of Trump’s White House pandemic action, with 45 percent saying they supported his response and 48 percent saying they did not. Worse, 43 percent of Texans surveyed in October said they strongly disapproved of the work Trump was doing to curb the coronavirus.
Biden also performed slightly better than Abbott, who scored good points in April by a 56% majority of Texas voters.
“[Biden]started in a Republican state with a fairly significant number, “Daron Shaw, a government professor at UT-Austin and co-head of the survey, said in comments to the Tribune Published Friday.
Forty-five percent of Texas voters in the poll said Trump “took actions as president that justifies preventing him from holding future elected office,” while 48 percent said he did not. However, those numbers include a large batch of divisions in which 84 percent of self-identified Democrats said Trump should not be allowed to run a 2024 campaign, compared to 81 percent of Republicans who said he should run again. be.
Compared to its Republican counterparts, Texas voters gave Biden slightly higher approval for the pandemic. But in terms of his overall performance, just one month in office, voters were a little more critical. Forty-five percent of Texas voters who spoke on Feb. 18 said they approve of the job Biden is running for president, compared to 44 percent who do not. Abbott achieved a slightly higher overall approval rating at 46 percent.
Despite widespread divisions between Republicans and Democrats throughout the poll, a solid majority agreed on one thing: Congress is doing very poorly. Fifty-seven percent of Texas voters said they disapprove of the work Congress in Washington in general does, with 43 percent strongly disapproving.
GOP Texas Senator John Cornyn received approval for work from less than a third of respondents, while 42 percent of respondents said they do not approve of the work he does in office. A quarter said they were neutral or had ‘no opinion’.
Co-Republican Senator Ted Cruz scored a much higher 45 percent, but his recent controversial visit to Cancun, Mexico, according to the polls, was “not clear in voters’ polls.”
The winter freezing conditions still gripped the state during the ballot box from 12 to 18 February.
Newsweek issued University of Texas-Austin polls as well as the White House for additional context and response Saturday afternoon.
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