WASHINGTON – Donald Trump is the only president in American history to have been charged twice – this time for his role in inciting a deadly assault on the Capitol by his supporters – but he is still ready to leave office with ‘ a job approval rating that is fairly typical of his entire time in office.
A new NBC News poll found that 43 percent of voters nationwide have a positive stance for Trump, just under 45 percent who said the same before the November election, and the 44 percent who approved his performance short after entering service in 2017. .
The same poll found that 35 percent of voters – including 74 percent of Republicans but only 30 percent of Independents and 3 percent of Democrats – believe President-elect Joe Biden did not legally win the 2020 election. not.
Sixty-one percent of all voters – but only 21 percent of Republicans – say Biden won legally.
While a record ten Republicans of the House broke the rankings last week to vote for the president’s accusation, Trump’s Republican approval in the poll shows little sign that GOP voters are widely disillusioned with the president.
Nearly 9-out of 10 Republicans – 87 percent – give Trump an inch up, compared to 89 percent who said the same thing before the November election.
And even for half of the Republicans who say they prioritize the GOP over loyalty to Trump in general, his high approval rating remains untouched by recent events.
Among Republicans who say their primary loyalty to Trump is over the party, 98 percent approve of his performance. For those who say they prioritize the party over the president, his approval rating still stands at 81 percent – virtually unchanged from October 2020. (These findings are in contrast to other recent national polls that show Trump’s job rating lower. In contrast to other polls that all U.S. adults chose., polled NBC’s polled registered voters.)
In the NBC poll, nearly a third of GOP voters surveyed – 28 percent – said that Trump’s words and actions related to the violence at the Capitol on January 6 actually reinforced their vote for Trump.
Only 5 percent said they now regret their support for him, and two-thirds – 66 percent – said their feelings about Trump have not changed.
While 52 percent of voters generally say Trump alone or primarily responsible for the protests that led to rioters overtaking the Capitol, including 91 percent of Democrats and 44 percent of independents, only 11 percent of Republicans vote together. (However, about half of Republicans place responsibility on ‘social media companies’ and ‘Antifa’.)
“While some Republican elected officials have clashed with Trump, Republican voters are keeping up with him for the time being,” said Democratic poll Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research, who conducted the poll along with Republican poll Bill McInturff of public opinion strategies. “As we have seen over the course of his term, the big event after the big event does not do much to Trump’s position with the Republicans.”
Trump’s position among those outside the GOP remains the same. He received a positive job evaluation from 44 percent of the Independents and only 5 percent of the Democrats in the latest poll, shares that are also almost identical to polls before the election.
In the previous NBC poll, Trump’s voter turnout is remarkably stable despite his tumultuous presidency, ranging from just 47% to 38%.
The latter rating came at the end of 2017, after Trump was widely criticized for his response to violence following a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Half of voters call Trump the “worst if most” presidents
About half of voters – 49 percent of voters – consider Trump “definitely worse than most” presidents, a share recently matched by only 48 percent, who said the same about outgoing President George W. Bush at the end of 2008.
An additional 9 percent say Trump is not as good as most.
Forty percent of voters consider Trump to be one of the very best presidents (19 percent) or ‘better than most’ (21 percent). This is significantly lower than the majorities that Bill Clinton (56 percent) or Barack Obama (55 percent) gave above-average reviews.
But Trump’s lukewarm review doubles the mere 20 percent of voters who gave Bush an above-average ranking when he left the White House in 2009.
The legacy of the outgoing president, such as the view of his performance during his presidency, is defined by hard biased lines.
Those who view Trump’s presidency as ‘better than most’ or ‘one of the best’ include 82 percent of Republicans, but only 40 percent of independents and only 4 percent of Democrats.
When former presidents Obama and Clinton left office while they were relatively approved, a larger proportion of those in the opposing party – 20 percent and 27 percent of Republicans, respectively – considered their presidency to be above average.
Biden, Harris bests Trump on favoritism scale
While the poll finds Trump’s personal favoritism ratings under water, Democrats are doing better in the White House.
Elected President Biden has a net favor rating of +4 (44 percent positive, 40 percent negative), while Vice President Kamala Harris has a net rating of +0 (41 percent positive, 41 percent negative.)
That compares with Trump’s net personal rating of -13 (40 percent positive, 53 percent negative.)
Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, has a personal favor rating of +14 (40 percent positive, 26 percent negative.) It is noteworthy, however, that a majority of Republicans – 59 percent – give her a negative rating, a particularly high sign of antipathy for an incoming first lady of members of the opposing party.
Prior to Obama’s inauguration, 33 percent of Republicans gave Michelle Obama a negative personal rating. And before Trump’s inauguration, 44 percent of Democrats gave Melania Trump a similarly weak point.
The NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters was conducted on January 10 – 13, 2021 by the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies and the Democratic firm Hart Research. The margin of error for registered voters is +/- 3.1 percentage points.