- CNN/SSRS polls show Trump widening his lead over Biden with a 6% split
- Gallup shows that Biden, 81, is the least popular commander in chief of the last seven decades at this point in his presidency.
- Six-month countdown begins until 2024 presidential election in November
Donald Trump maintains a slight lead over Joe Biden in polls for the 2024 elections and the latest ones show the former president increasing his lead to 6 percent.
With just over six months until the November general election, Trump leads with 49 percent to Biden’s 43 percent, according to a new CNN/SSRS survey held from April 18 to 23 and published on Sunday.
This is a widening gap from the comparative results of the same survey conducted last year.
The latest poll also shows that as more time passes since Trump’s days in the White House, more voters view his time in office positively.
CNN/SSRS polls show Donald Trump widening his lead over President Joe Biden with a 6 percent split heading into the six-month countdown to Election Day.
Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll released Friday shows that, compared to other presidents at this point in their term, Biden, 81, is the least popular commander in chief of the last seven decades.
Biden, who ranks even below Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, who were wildly unpopular as they completed their fourth year in office, has 38.7 percent job approval through the first quarter of 2024.
Trump, by contrast, had a 46.8 percent approval rating at this point in his presidency. Nixon and Carter had higher approval ratings than Biden at this point in their respective presidencies, with 53.7 percent and 47.7 percent approval.
The CNN/SSRS poll released Sunday shows that among 1,212 Americans surveyed, 60 percent disapprove of Biden’s job as president.
In the results of two other polls conducted in January 2024 and October 2023 via CNN/SSRS, Trump maintained his support among registered voters at 49 percent to the president’s 45 percent.
The hypothetical showdown in the August 2023 general election – more than a year before Election Day in November – showed Trump and Biden separated by just 1 percentage point (47 percent to 46 percent).
A separate Gallup poll shows that, compared to other presidents at this point in their terms, Biden, 81, is the least popular commander in chief of the past seven decades. Pictured: Biden speaking to a room of reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday.
Both Trump and Biden have already earned the number of delegates needed by their respective parties to win the nomination in 2024. This means the United States is on track for a 2020 rematch that most voters said they didn’t want, according to multiple polls.
After the summer conventions, the two will solidify their nominations for president and head into a heated race for a spot behind the Resolute Desk.
In the entire history of Gallup polling, there has never been a president who returned to the White House for a second term with approval ratings as low as Biden’s. His ranking falls within the top 12 percent of presidential quarters dating back to 1945.
