biden actually had a higher favorability than the republican party, but there was a slew of voters who didn t like either one of them. in the key senate races we mentioned, all the democrats have positive net favorability ratings. it s not that the republicans are disliked. it s that the democrats are well liked in those. paul, you must be pleased with the spate of legislation that joe biden has signed recently. but are you surprised that his numbers, his approval numbers, are not higher? you know, it s going to take time. people haven t had a chance to digest it yet. but this inflation reduction act, you know what the democrats did that they never do? they branded it. god bless joe manchin. he called it the inflation reduction act. what does that do? ask my mama. it s like the greatest movie title ever, snakes on a plane. what s that about? democrats always call their movie harold and maude. what s that? biden can say, i m lowering the
democrats would have expected at this i don t think democrats would have expected it. i certainly didn t expect it. and i think this just gets at something we ve seen so far, which is, you know, candidates do matter. if we look, if we look basically at the popularity of the different make sure i get this right. there we go. the popularity of the different senate candidates that republicans are running. take a look here. look at these key races. herschel walker in georgia, ron johnson in wisconsin, dr. oz down in pennsylvania. look at their net favorability ratings. this is the favorable. they re all under water. on the democratic side, similar we ve seen the democratic side for the most part is these candidates are much more favorable. in georgia you see raphael war warnock. in wisconsin we don t have a candidate yet. we can go over to the senate side now. you can basically see, look at the leads the different senate candidates have.
trend right from the middle of last year up to now, you see trump is loosening a little bit, but more than that, what do you see? you see desantis is starting to consolidate a little bit. 12% middle of last year, 15% the beginning of this year and now up to 23% in an average there. david chalian would want me to point out in republican primaries what you actually need say plurality, not a majority here. so it may be that donald trump wants a lot of candidates to jump in and get some percentage, even if he is well under 50%, he might still be able to win. that aside, what about his favorability? just wrapping up here among those overall as the news cycle has been tough with trump, if you look at his net favorability, favorable versus unfavorable, minus 6 points on march 26th, where it is now, minus 12 points. that s a month by month movement. a month by month movement. trump doesn t want to be in the news for the general public, the general public doesn t like when trump is in t
hours. back to you. a lot of money for those cartels and for the chinese manufacturers. that is where this is coming from. thank you very much, casey, always good to see you. really crisis after crisis is taking a toll on the president s popularity. the latest numbers from new hampshire put transportation secretary pete buttigieg as democrats first choice for 2024. the poll also showing that biden s net favorability has taken an enormous nose-dive at an all-time low since the minus 37, the plus 1 was in june of last year. so you can see how those numbers have shifted. democratic lawmakers not helping matters. congresswoman cori bush refusing to say this week asked a simple question would you support the democrat sitting president for a second term. all tongue twisted over that one. senate majority leader chuck
favorability ratings. this is really the key, the favorability ratings among republicans and donald trump compared to mcconnell and pence, if you look over the past year, they sided with him. and you know, he sort of drove a wedge, and it ended up with a bigger chunk on his side. you know, his favorability, net favorability is extremely high, and mcconnell s is under water, even with republicans. pence is, you know, much lower than his. which brings us to kevin mccarthy, who knows this, and who nbc news just reported won t be attending the events tomorrow, january 6th, just the commemoration that was planned. and i gotta interpret that as a tacit in some ways not tacit, explicit symbol to trump, like, i m down with you, dude. yeah, absolutely. i mean, kevin mccarthy, he made his one small stand on the night of january 6th. and ever since then, has bent over backwards in service to