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Kelly McParland: Souring Americans say Biden was better

Americans may have begun to grasp the heavy cost of returning Trump as president

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Nine months before voters are to pass a sort of judgement on Donald Trump’s second term, Americans may have begun to grasp the heavy cost of returning him as president.

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There are polls and polls and polls, and more of them are indicating a distinct sense of buyers’ remorse. The Gallup organization revealed that the 47th president has the lowest average approval rating in 80 years of measurements. That puts him at the bottom of 14 presidents. He’s behind Richard Nixon, forced from office over the Watergate scandal, Jimmy Carter, historically dismissed as a good hearted but ill-suited failure, and, perhaps most surprisingly, he’s now even trailing Joe Biden.

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Three separate polls comparing the current president with his predecessor found more Americans think Trump’s doing a worse job. That’s a monumental rendering considering  that Biden’s deeply disappointing performance, and the catastrophic re-election bid he mounted, convinced millions of Democrat voters to stay home on election day, opening the way for Trump’s return.

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