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In Tight Presidential Race, Voters Are Broadly Critical of Both Biden and Trump
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This is actually a pretty big report so let me highlight what I think are some of the more significant findings of this poll.

Voters are more likely to think Trump has the physical and mental fitness necessary to be president while voters are more confident in Biden to act ethically in office and respect the country’s democratic values.

49% of voters would replace both Biden and Trump on the presidential ballot if they could with 62% of Biden voters wanting to do the same thing.

Only 28% of voters think that Biden has been at least a good president while 42% of voters say the same thing about Trump’s presidency in hindsight.

”A defining characteristic of the contest is that voters overall have little confidence in either candidate across a range of key traits, including fitness for office, personal ethics and respect for democratic values.”

I think the reason for this picking between the lesser of two evils election is the failure of both major parties to appeal to independents and moderates. Trump and Biden both generally have a lot of support from the party faithful, which is good for winning primaries, but when it comes to winning over undecided voters in a general election, there is a lot of room for improvement.

Do you think these assessments of Biden and Trump by the American public are fair? Or are they too harsh or not harsh enough?

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Just one observation.

Its very easy to look back on Trump's time in office more fondly when you're 4 years removed from his presidency.

I think that as people pay more attention to the election (we're mostly doing our best not to right now)... they'll be forced to remember the Trump that they actually had in office.

Essentially, I'm saying that hindsight is not always 20/20.

Edit: this is specifically in response to the point about Trump having a more favorable presidency than Biden

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Okay, fair.

And you look at Biden's presidency and think that the GOP has been fair and not at all behaving like a circus?

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