The former president's favorability rating has remained low despite effectively clinching the Republican nomination, fresh polling indicates.

Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion’s share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.

An ABC News/Ipsos survey of 536 U.S. adults, conducted between March 8-9, found that 29 percent have a favorable view of the former president compared to 59 percent who view him unfavorably.

It came after Trump secured all but one of the primaries on Super Tuesday—giving him 1,075 out of 1,215 delegates he needs to become the presumptive Republican nominee—which prompted former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley to drop out of the race to leave him unopposed. Primaries being held on Tuesday could push Trump over the line.

Trump’s popularity has remained largely unchanged since last summer. In similar polls conducted last year, which have a margin of error of 4.5 percent either way, he has hovered around a 30 percent favorability rating.

  • n1ckn4m3@kbin.social
    218·
    8 months ago

    Doesn’t matter what polls say, doesn’t matter what the media says, don’t be complacent – go vote. Go vote. Go vote. Go vote. I can’t stress this enough, this kind of bullshit puff piece exists solely to keep people from voting by lulling into a false sense of security.

    I don’t care if there’s a poll that says 100% of the country hates one or the other, GO VOTE. Ignore these bullshit polls, they are completely and utterly worthless.

    • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
      33·
      8 months ago

      Not only that, volunteer or donate if you can. Even if you only can spare 5 minutes or $5 a week, organizations like Vote Save America will help you direct your energy or 100% of your donations where they will do the most good.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        7·
        8 months ago

        I might donate if they didn’t spam donation pleas at everyone who’s donated in the past decade.

        Political messages are not subject to the same spam limitations as regular marketing messages. It’s “political speech”, so for some reason they can shout it at you constantly.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 months ago

      https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-18-states-with-all-mail-elections

      If you live in one of these 18 states, don’t even bother going anywhere to vote. I get my primary ballot, and my general ballot in the mail just over one month before election day. As long as it has a postmark on or before election day, (don’t wait till election day) it is a valid vote.

      If you don’t live in one of the 18, flood your state legislature with calls, emails, and visits to their office in support of mail in voting measures. This is so much better for everyone.

      I don’t have to stand in a line, I don’t have to remember an exact day. I get the envelope and within a week or two I sit down with the ballot, and the ballot guide, and then start looking for news stories about the candidates that are not from the current campaign year. It helps remind me that, oh yeah, this Democrat decided to embezzle a bunch of money a couple years back, better check the competition out. It normally only takes me a few hours, but I have their vote history, and everything else I need to try to pick someone that isn’t gonna screw anyone over.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      I’ll vote when there’s a candidate worth voting for, or they make “none of the above” an option that disbars the candidates from running again in the future.

      • jumjummy@lemmy.world
        15·
        8 months ago

        With that statement we can ignore everything you say. If you don’t take part in the voting process you don’t have a voice and your opinion doesn’t matter.

      • n1ckn4m3@kbin.social
        12·
        8 months ago

        In my opinion this is flawed logic. Not voting doesn’t accomplish any of the things you want, on the contrary it plays into goals of parties because they want voter apathy – the less people voting the easier it is for an unpopular candidate to win. I’m definitely not voting for someone I like, I’m voting against the person I think will destroy democracy (and I similarly hate that this is the set of options we are given – no one would have picked these candidates).

        • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
          3·
          8 months ago

          I can’t argue with that logic, except that it relies on a false premise of what I want from the election and an unrealistic understanding of just how little influence I can have on it as a citizen of a non-swing state.

          I don’t want to see either of the major parties in the white house. Logic suggests that I should make an accelerationist vote for Trump, as his presidency would no doubt hasten the inevitable collapse of the American Empire, or at least its current political establishment. But I can’t vote for Trump for the same reason that I can’t vote for Biden, the active support for genocide.

          I also see voting “against” as a corruption of the principles of democracy. Elections aren’t a process by which leaders are selected, that’s merely a secondary effect. The purpose of elections is to legitimize the State, a reification of the “implied consent of the governed” that entitles a government to act with authority. But I see our current government as fundamentally illegitimate (as evidenced by our abysmal voter turnout figures), and voting against the worst candidate is still placing a vote of confidence in the government itself.

          So, until there’s an option that doesn’t want to arm rogue states in the middle east, I’ll just save myself some time on voting day.

          • n1ckn4m3@kbin.social
            3·
            8 months ago

            Can’t argue with any of your points – I can only commiserate with the way you feel as I share a lot of the same sentiments. I appreciate the open candor and willingness to have a dialogue about this!

            • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
              2·
              8 months ago

              Likewise! I love to argue about politics but so many people just get angry when presented with a different perspective. The occasional chat like this is such a treat. _

      • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        Then vote for a third party. It’s better than not voting at all. I live in a state that has no chance of going blue but I still vote every year. Sometimes for third party candidates.

      • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 months ago

        I heard a piece of a speech by the head of Salem Media Group, and he absolutely said he does not want people to vote because they have a better chance of getting christofascists into power. Just so you’re aware.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 months ago

        The only way that is happening is if the election system changes to ranked choice voting (or similar) and there is only one party that will allow that to happen.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    8 months ago

    An ABC News/Ipsos survey of 536 U.S. adults, conducted between March 8-9, found that 29 percent have a favorable view of the former president compared to 59 percent who view him unfavorably.

    Sounds great till:

    Some 33 percent viewed the incumbent favorably to 54 percent who viewed him unfavorably. In November, a similar poll put his unfavorability rating at 50 percent with his favorability unchanged, while in prior polls the two ratings have modulated around the same numbers.

    We’re running two incredibly unpopular candidates…

    Only 62% of voters approve of either candidate

    Our system is broken

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      58·
      8 months ago

      Still gonna vote for the one that hasn’t explicitly said they want to be a dictator….

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        I hope everyone does.

        But Bidens favorable numbers are stuck, and unfavourably keeps increasing.

        We’re going to see a low turnout election. And thats only good for republicans.

        The more people vote, the better Dems do. Which is why we shouldn’t be running a candidate less than a third of voters approve of.

        If we’re stuck with Biden, his and his campaign need to at least start portraying him in better light, even if the change isn’t real.

        If Biden stops funding Israel’s genocide, he’d win the election in a blowout, I just can’t see him doing it. He’ll risk trump winning instead.

        So he’s got to do a shit ton of little things instead of that one big easy thing.

    • Poggervania@kbin.social
      7·
      8 months ago

      I’ve been saying this more and more, but ever since 2016, the system has gone away from “vote for who you support” and more towards “vote against what you don’t support” for the presidential elections. We have somehow managed to have a good chunk of the US view these actually really important political processes as nothing more than blind fanaticism for “their team” - and that goes for both Team D and Team R.

  • SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net
    34·
    8 months ago

    Calling it now, Trump loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote. After which we will get opinion pieces on NYT about how this is all for our benefits and getting rid of the electoral college will somehow make things worse

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      “It’s only right and proper that rural voters [1] count more and get to select Presidents and decide majorities in the House and Senate.” -thinkpieces in elite “liberal media”, probably. [1] - aka, “the heartland”, aka “real America”.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    Gotta say, it’s nice to see a bit of hope for America.

    Once the Supreme Court over-ruled Colorado (and every state) removing Trump from the ballots via the insurrectionist clause, I’ve essentially given up hope.

    The current president is a senile moron, with the country begging for change, but the only other option put forward is a dementia ridden dictator deadset on dismantling Americas democracy to fuel his own petty vindications. That’s not good for anyone but Americas enemies.

    A glimer of hope is welcome in the darkness.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 months ago

      Someone missed the state of the union.

      The messaging now is Biden is too strong.

      Try to keep up.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion’s share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.

    It came after Trump secured all but one of the primaries on Super Tuesday—giving him 1,075 out of 1,215 delegates he needs to become the presumptive Republican nominee—which prompted former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley to drop out of the race to leave him unopposed.

    That rating dipped to 25 percent—with 61 percent viewing him unfavorably—at the start of April last year, immediately after he became the first president in U.S. history to be indicted with criminal charges, which he denies, in New York.

    The same ABC/Ipsos poll found that President Joe Biden, who is on course to be renominated by the Democratic Party, is also viewed as similarly unpopular, though his unfavorability rating is slightly lower.

    But the president has brushed off queries about his physical and mental health, telling a news conference in February that his “memory is fine” and “I know what the hell I’m doing.”

    Recent polling also shows that nearly half of U.S. adults think Trump, 77, is too old to serve another term, and the former president has also faced questions about his mental agility.

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