Recent polls show that 55% of Americans consider Donald Trump's presidency a success, a significant increase from when he left office in January 2021.
President Joe Biden's approval ratings remain low, and Democrats are concerned about the positive retrospective assessments of Trump's time in office potentially impacting Biden's chances for re-election.
Biden's campaign is ramping up efforts to contrast his record with Trump's, particularly focusing on issues like health care, the economy, and immigration to highlight differences between the two administrations.
During Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, he was famously the only president whose job approval rating never reached 50% in Gallup Organization polls since the firm began systematically tracking that measure in the 1940s.
But now more positive retrospective assessments of Trump’s record in office are setting off warning flares for Democrats — especially as President Joe Biden’s own approval ratings remain stuck at historically low levels. In a CNN poll from April, 55% of Americans said they considered Trump’s presidency a success — a big jump from the 41% who viewed his presidency so positively when he left office in January 2021, according to a CNN survey from the time.