As Ipsos polling shows majorities of U.S. adults and even Democrats want President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's favorability has reached a four-year high at 40%.
While Biden's favorability is down to 32% and even 60% of registered Democrats want him to end his reelection campaign, Trump is approaching nearly a double-digit lead over the sitting incumbent on the issue of favorability, ABC News reported Sunday in its poll analysis.
Trump has turned a huge wave of momentum toward his campaign against Biden since the late May conviction in Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan's business records trial.
Trump has "skyrocketed 9 points in less than two months" Mediaite noted from the post-trial favorability in the June ABC News/Ipsos poll, the previously most recent polling.
Trump's highest favorability rating (42%) came around the time of the August 2020 Republican National Convention held at the White House due to the COVID pandemic.
Republicans (44%) are more likely than Democrats (39%) to say Biden should remain in the race in the name of being democratically elected as the presumptive nominee.
"There are two ways to measure a politician's popularity — his job rating and his personal favorability — and Trump's job rating has always been 5 or 6 points higher than his personal favorability; and 10% or 20% of the voters would say, I like his policies and programs, but I don't much like him; that's gone now: His personal favorability is higher than his job approval," Trump presidential adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax host Rita Cosby on "Saturday Report."
"Very rarely does a public figure get to transform his image, and Trump really has done that."
Trump noted Saturday night the irony of Democrats seeking to dump Biden and disenfranchise voters by "throwing out" the results of the Democrat primary won by Biden in a blowout this winter.
"There's never been anything like it, and now we have something coming up where they're going to go to the convention and they have a couple of problems: No. 1, they have no idea who their candidate is and neither do we," Trump told his campaign rally that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the free Newsmax2 streaming platform. "That's a problem. But we'll see. Hopefully they get it worked out.
"Sort of interesting: This guy goes and he gets the votes and now they want to take it away. That's democracy. They talk about democracy. Let's take it away from them."
The ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted July 19-20 among 1,141 U.S. adults with self-reported "oversamples of Black and Hispanic respondents weighted to their correct proportions in the general population." The results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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