Voters Rate Biden Worse on Crime Than on Economy
Violent crime is a bigger concern than inflation for most voters, and President Joe Biden gets worse ratings for dealing with crime than he does for how he’s handling the economy.
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that of 21% voters rate Biden as excellent on his handling of economic issues and another 21% rate his handling of the economy as good. Twelve percent (12%) say Biden is doing a fair job on the economy, but 43% rate Biden’s handling of economic issues as poor. Those numbers haven’t changed much since April, when 23% of voters rated Biden excellent on economic issues. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 960 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on July 27-28, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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