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Does President Biden have the lowest start-of-term approval ratings of any recent president?
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
By Austin Tannenbaum
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By various measures, President Biden does not have the lowest start-of-term approval rating among recent presidents.
- According to Gallup, 68% of Americans approve of the way Biden is handling his presidential transition—more Americans than approved of the Bush (61%) or Trump transitions (44%), but fewer Americans than approved of the Clinton (68%) or Obama (83%) transitions.
- According to the same poll, 57% of Americans view Biden favorably as an incoming president—more Americans than favored Trump (40%) but fewer than favored Obama (78%) or Bush (62%).
- Biden also outranks Trump in a Morning Consult poll of initial job approval ratings: 56% approval compared to Trump's 46% approval.
- In a Hill-HarrisX poll, 63% of Americans approved of “the job President Joe Biden is doing overall”—a higher approval rating than any Trump received from the same poll throughout his presidency.
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