How is Joe Biden Doing?

This week the US President, Joe Biden, delivered his annual State of the Union address to Congress, the first since the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in November’s mid-term elections.

Whilst all eyes were on Washington, the speech provided an opportunity for Americans as a whole to consider what they think of the state of the union, and, whether Joe Biden should re-stand as the Democrat candidate for President in 2024.

Fortunately, this week has seen a number of polls published answering just those questions.

According to CNN’s flash poll following the speech 72% of those who watched it had a positive reaction to the President’s address, with 34% reacting very positively.

In a sign that Biden’s speech created greater confidence in his policies, CNN noted: “Following the speech, 71% of speech watchers said they felt the policies Biden proposed would move the country in the right direction, versus 29% who said they would move things in the wrong direction. In a survey conducted before the speech, those same people were closer to evenly split (52% right direction, 47% wrong direction).”

On the crucial issue of the economy CNN said: “Overall, 66% who watched the address said that Biden’s policies would move the country in the right direction on the economy – that’s in comparison to 62% of speech-watchers who said the same about his economic policies following his speech last year, and 72% following Biden’s first presidential address to Congress in 2021.”

ABC News meanwhile published a poll before the speech which found that 41% of those questioned were financially worse off now than they were when Joe Biden became President. Just 16% said they were better off.

On the crucial issue of whether Joe Biden should run for President again, 58% of registered Democrats and Democrat leaning independent voters said the party should find another candidate to stand in 2024.  

On the other side of the political divide, among registered Republicans and Republican leaning independent voters, 49% feel the party should choose someone other than Donald Trump as its candidate for President.

If however the choice was between Trump or Biden, the poll suggested that if an election were held now, among all adults questioned, 48% said they would support Trump with 44% backing Biden. ABC News goes on to warn that: “The differences are within the poll's margin of sampling error.”

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