In a new ABC News/ Ipsos poll, a majority of overall respondents indicated that they have either “a great deal or good amount of trust” in President Joe Biden’s efforts to negotiate with fellow world leaders on behalf of the United States, according to new ABC reporting. Both groups together, including those who said that they have a “great deal” and a “good amount” of trust in Biden, respectively, totaled 52 percent of respondents. In the survey, 18 percent of overall respondents said that they only have “some” trust in Biden’s international negotiations, adding to the president’s brighter position compared to Trump.
BREAKING: A majority of the American public has a great deal or good amount of trust in Pres. Joe Biden to negotiate on the country's behalf with other world leaders, per a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/6dj7zjupLb
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 13, 2021
In a July 2017 survey from ABC News and The Washington Post, a full 47 percent of overall respondents indicated that they had “no trust at all” in then-President Trump to negotiate with other countries on behalf of the U.S., as reported by ABC. With the total level of at least “some” trust in Biden’s negotiations at a whopping 70 percent, that’s a stark difference from the early stages of the Trump era. More broadly, only 24 percent of respondents in the newer survey said that they did not have confidence in Biden “to do the right thing regarding world affairs” — but in the July 2017 survey, 38 percent said the same about Trump.
The positive numbers for Biden keep coming. In the new survey, 44 percent of respondents said “that under Biden, America’s global leadership has strengthened,” according to reporting from ABC, while in the July 2017 survey, only 27 percent of Americans said the same about the Trump era. Thus, those who seem confident in the overall direction of the United States appear to have nearly doubled.
These numbers suggest that Democrats could do better than some observers may expect in the upcoming midterm elections. Republicans who’ve gone after Biden have found nearly nothing substantively lasting about which to complain, leaving them to try and concoct scandals nearly out of thin air. Republicans, for instance, spent awhile publicly whining about the decision by the private estate of the late author Dr. Seuss to stop the publication of certain books with racist imagery. This mind-numbingly petty place is where many Republicans have chosen to basically set up shop, even as many Americans could seriously use leaders who look out for the country’s interests.
