Two-Thirds of Americans Call Both Biden and Trump ‘Embarrassing’ in New Pew Poll — Even More Dub Trump ‘Mean-Spirited’

CNN

A new Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday showed more bad news for President Joe Biden — but former President Donald Trump didn’t get off so easy either.

The poll, which was conducted between July 1 and July 7, revealed that a whopping 63 percent of those polled thought both presidential candidates were described as “embarrassing.”

Even worse for both Biden and Trump was that each of them were considered embarrassing by voters aligned with their own political parties. When it came to actually casting a vote, Trump had more support, but the numbers didn’t exactly signal enthusiasm: 44 percent of those registered voters polled would vote for Trump, 40 percent for Biden, and 15 percent would vote for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But even with Trump getting more of the vote, the Pew poll respondents didn’t have many positive things to say about him. While Trump and Biden were equally “embarrassing,” 64 percent of those polled said Trump was “mean-spirited.” Thirty-one percent said the same of Biden.

Other descriptors that were polled in regards to the two candidates were “mentally sharp” (Biden, 24 percent; Trump, 58 percent), “honest” (Biden, 36 percent; Trump, 48 percent), and “cares about ordinary people’s needs” (Biden, 44 percent; Trump, 49 percent).

Pew Research polled 9,424 adults, 7,729 of them registered voters, all of them members of “the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly.” The surveys were conducted online and on the phone with a live interviewer.

Following the first presidential debate between Biden and Trump, the president’s poor performance caused many to question his fitness for a second term. The bleeding support was also based on poll numbers that showed voters were having the same questions, though the two candidates still remain statistically tied.