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A majority of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s performance during his first 100 days in office, three new polls found Sunday.
Overall, the polls showed a range of 52-58 percent of US adults who say they approve of the job Biden is doing, compared with 39-42% who say they disapprove.
But the positive ratings are divided along party lines: about 90% of Democrats say they approve of Biden’s performance, while only 9 to 13% of Republicans do.
Biden’s performance is far higher than predecessor Donald Trump achieved in his entire presidency.
Trump spent most of his presidency with ratings in the low 40s, and left office on January 20 with a Gallup poll approval of just 34%, a record low.
Most notably the administration used a sweeping pandemic relief package to send hefty checks to most Americans, and given a big reduction in child poverty.
Few would have bet Joe Biden would ever be uttered in the same breath as Franklin D. Roosevelt. It s too soon to know whether he deserves to be.
But the scope of what Biden wants to do would if he succeeds put him in the company of that New Deal president, whose burst of consequential actions set the 100-day marker by which all successors are informally measured since.
It s not all been smooth. Biden has struggled to change course on immigration practices he railed against in the campaign, drawing accusations from within his party that he s caved to the politics of fear.