delegates allocated to date. and bernie sanders has won 43.1%. that s what they ve won. what do they need to win of the remaining delegates to get to 1,991? this is what they need. joe biden just needs barely over a majority of the rest of the delegates. 50.5%. bernie sanders needs substantially more. obviously, behind. he needs 53.4% of the remaining delegates. and this is what i want you to compare those last two columns there. this is what they ve been winning. they both, actually, need more than they ve already won. so they both have to perform better than they already have to make sure they avoid contested convention. they both need to step up their game but obviously bernie sanders more so than joe biden. we are getting closer to the top of the hour when we get the first opportunity potentially to project what s going on. just minutes from now, voting ends in mississippi, missouri,
they have aspirations. they ve made sacrifices. they re separated. they love our country, but to him it s just 1.3 mill military that he fails to understand. he s indifferent to the culture. he lacks in understanding of what motives men and women in uniform to serve, and we ve seen it time and time again, and on full display this week. yeah, to the congressman s point, leo, there is 1.3 active duty. there is another 800,000 or so on the reserves. when you re talking about 2 million people, it s not like opinion or sentiment is unanimous. it s diverse and heterogeneous group of people. but it is interesting to me the military times polling shows essentially approval split on the president right now. 43.8 approve and 43.1 disapprove. what have you seen over time in terms of that approval rating? you have the graphic coming up here. we ve seen a steady increase in the number of folks who are upset with the president, who don t approve of his job. it seems like his support is
they have aspirations. they ve made sacrifices. they re separated. they love our country, but to him it s just 1.3 mill military that he fails to understand. he s indifferent to the culture. he lacks in understanding of what motives men and women in uniform to serve, and we ve seen it time and time again, and on full display this week. yeah, to the congressman s point, leo, there is 1.3 active duty. there is another 800,000 or so on the reserves. when you re talking about 2 million people, it s not like opinion or sentiment is unanimous. it s diverse and heterogeneous group of people. but it is interesting to me the military times polling shows essentially approval split on the president right now. 43.8 approve and 43.1 disapprove. what have you seen over time in terms of that approval rating? you have the graphic coming up here. we ve seen a steady increase in the number of folks who are upset with the president, who don t approve of his job. it seems like his support is draining
they want immigration reform. they would to see infrastructure happen and campaigning in pard on the president s rhetoric. you saw the announcement from jim jordan. he said when he was running for speaker, he set to campaign on the things we promised we would bring the american people in 2016. i think there are going to be republicans who go against the president but many of them are looking at his approval ratings within the republican conference and the republican voters and the american people and they want to see his support. the latest real clear politics average, the approval poll on the president show 43.1% of americans approve of the job he s doing. 56.6% disapprove. any fan of president trump would say the polls were wrong before he was elected and the polls are wrong right now. what do you say to that? i think one thing here is real clear politics is doing an average of many polls.
washington post just yesterday is the headline. trump s improved standing. worried democrats and encouraged republican voters. you go inside the article. driving their concerns are trump s approval rating which has ticked upward and high republican turnout in recent primaries suggesting the gop base remains energized. from that primary in ohio, more republicans voted than democrats. i know you know that. frame this right now about where you think we are, karl. well look, the key there is they said ticked upwards. let s look at the president s job approval. mid-december 37.1 in the real clear politics average. early march 39.8. that s a tick. but by today it s 43.1. that s a pretty significant jump. about a 15% improvement in the president s job approval rating between early december and today. between then we have had the tax cut, we ve had the decision