The 2024 presidential election has the least-liked majority party candidates in decades.
FILE - In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at May 1, 2024. found that 25% of Americans have unfavorable views of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump . It's the highest share since at least 1988. Just three percent of Americans have favorable views of both Biden and Trump . The survey was conducted before Trump 's conviction in the New York hush-money case.
Back in 2020, 13% of Americans had unfavorable views of both Biden and Trump; the number has nearly doubled in four years. During this same time in the 2016 presidential election, 20% of Americans had unfavorable views of Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 1988, just 5% of Americans had an unfavorable view of the Democratic presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, and then former Republican presidential candidate, George H.W. Bush.shows Trump is 0.9% ahead of Biden in the national polls. Trump has 41%, Biden has 40.1%, and third-party candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 9.2%. Pew also found Trump has a higher favorability than Biden. The data shows that 39% of Americans view Trump favorably. Meanwhile, 37% of Americans view Biden favorably.
Meanwhile, in 2008, 27% of Democrats had a favorable view of then-Republican presidential candidate, John McCain. The numbers were identical for then-Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, with 27% of Republicans having a favorable view of him.
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