Though former President Donald Trump predictably and consistently claims that he has high levels of support among Americans, actual polling tells a different story.
Recent numbers from Monmouth University, stemming from polling completed on September 24, show nearly an outright majority of Americans saying they would “definitely not” vote for Trump. The portion was specifically 48 percent. An additional eight percent said they’d “probably not” vote for Trump, pushing the combined total to 56 percent of registered voters.
On a similar note, nearly a majority of respondents in this same poll said they believe Trump to have committed a crime in the manner in which he responded to the 2020 presidential election, after which he desperately clamored to retain power despite the documentation of his loss to Joe Biden. The portion of registered voters agreeing with the idea Trump had done something criminal was 46 percent, with an additional 22 percent saying they felt the former president had perpetrated acts “wrong” but not violating the law. Similar findings, with many Americans broadly backing the criminal (and civil!) allegations against Trump, have also emerged from other polling.
Numbers from polling also show many Americans not thrilled with Joe Biden’s candidacy for another term, though the data around Trump establishes the important clarification that such isn’t because there’s some kind of fabled “red wave” materializing before next year’s elections. The portions of respondents saying in the Monmouth polling that they’d either definitely or probably not vote for Biden were high to an extent actually similar to Trump’s numbers. The two are clearly in distinct positions before next year’s election in which they’re expected to face each other, though. Biden can point to a series of policy wins from infrastructure spending and support for domestic manufacturing to working to lower prescription drug prices and cancel at least some student debt, even if the more all-encompassing plan has faced court setbacks. And to what can Trump point? Angry posts online?
