‘Preserve, Protect and Defend’: How’s Biden Doing?
In terms of upholding his oath of office – to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" – many voters don’t think President Joe Biden is doing better than his predecessor.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters give Biden a good or excellent rating for the job he’s done In terms of preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution. Forty-three percent (43%) rate Biden as doing a poor job of keeping his oath. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,092 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on April 25-26 and 29, 2024 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.
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