For the past few weeks, the President, Trump has been the pick of the peculiar fight with his predecessor. The specifics of “Obamagate” are messy and hard to follow, but at its core, Trump alleges that the former President-elect Barack Obama and was part of the deep state, efland to frame him for colluding to Russia with the to win the 2016 election.
Only, there isn’t any evidence to support these claims.
This has led many to draw parallels with what’s fueled Trump”s birther movement in the year 2011: an obsession with delegitimizing and “othering” Obama,. Then it was about questioning Obama”s citizenship and whether he was actually born in the U. s. Now it’s time to think of assigning blame for Trump”s political problems while continuing to question the legitimacy of the Obama”s presidency.
It’s also an opportunity for Trump to divert attention from his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But continuing to attack Obama is probably not a smart move, given that Obama is far more popular than the Trump.
According to four recent polls that asked respondents whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the variety of politicians, Obama has consistently got higher marks than the Trump. In fact, of the four recent polls that we could find, wasn’t there a single one in which the majority of adults had a positive view of Trump. Obama, on the other hand, had a net positive favorability rating, and the favourable ratings minus the unfavorable rating) in all four polls.
Obama is far more popular than the Trump
The Net favorability rating (favorable rating minus unfavorable rating) of Obama, and Trump in recent polls
| The Net favorability | ||
|---|---|---|
| The Poll | Obama | Trump |
| The Economist/The City | +14 | -6 |
| The Harvard/Harris | +22 | To 9 |
| Monmouth University | +23 | -13 |
| Emerson College | +23 | 14th |
This is, in large part, due to the Obama”s better half among independents. In the four polls that we looked at between 45 and 58 percent of independents said they had a favorable view of Obama, whereas only 29 to 39 percent of independents said the same of Trump. Additionally, in most of these polls, Obama has enjoyed greater cross-party appeal than the Trump. In that The Harvard/Harris pollit , for instance, 27 percent of Republicans said they had a favorable opinion of Obama, compared with 14 percent of the Democrats who had a favorable opinion of Trump. In that Emerson College pollOf 22 percent of Republicans had a favorable opinion of Obama, compared with 12 percent of Democrats who said the same of Trump. And in that The Monmouth University pollAnd 19 percent of Republicans had a favorable opinion of Obama, compared with just 5 percent of Democrats who said the same of Trump. Only in the The Economist/the poll Dhabi, uae that was Trump”s support among Democrats, about equal to — in fact, it’s one point the higher then — Obama”s support among Republicans, 15 percent to 14 percent.
For sure, some of the Obama”s popularity has to do with the fact that presidents tend to have higher approval ratings for the eleven, they’re out of the office, which might be one reason why the Republicans are more likely to give Obama higher marks than the Democrats give up the Trump. It might also be why Obama tends to lead Trump in hypothetical matchups.
But there’s also evidence that the Act, think that Obama was just a better president than Trump is. Granted, this poll was conducted in May 2018 at the earliest, but the THE CNN/SSRS the poll that asked whether Trump was a better president than Obama, found that 55 percent of registered voters thought Obama was better compared with 39 percent who said Trump. Obama also enjoyed greater cross-party appeal than the Trump in this poll. Eighteen percent of respondents who leaned Republican, said that Obama was the better president, compared with 5 percent who leaned Democratic, and said the Trump was better.
Obama is also just a in fact the popular former president. A number of recent polls have found that he is one Act Not’. 1 to the president. In The Jan. 2019 A Public Policy Polling survey that asked voters who they thought was the best president in the past 40 years, found, for instance, that’s a 31 percent say Obama has the most support is received among any of the first seven presidents, PPP asked about that. (By contrast, only 15 percent said Trump, although he did come in third, behind former u.s. president Ronald Reagan, who got 26 percent.) In the June 2018 The Pew Research Center’s poll that, or the Americans for their first and second choices is the best president in their lifetimes, Obama has led on this metric too. Thirty-one percent picked Obama, the other’s first choice, which was the most support of any president is received. (Trump, came in fourth, at 10 percent, after the Reagan and Clinton administrations, respectively). And in March 2018 respectively Quinnipiac University the poll that asked voters to name the best president since World War II, found that 24 percent said mr. Obama and just 7 percent said Trump, although in this case, it was the Reagan — not Obama — who’s got the most support overall, at 28 percent.
Trump”s latest attacks on the Obama ultimately you aren’t surprising in that, though it. Obama has long been a target of Trump”s, and with this latest conspiracy theory, it’s clear that the president is trying to for the rally to at least some of his supporters. But I Obama”s continued widespread popularity, Trump might want to rethink his strategy.
