By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
A new Rasmussen poll released Monday shows Democrat President Joe Biden trailing former Republican President Donald Trump by six points, even after the former chief executive was indicted.
Amid all his other problems, Biden is decidedly anti-gun-rights, say critics in the gun rights community, while Trump has traditionally declared his support for the Second Amendment. How this will shake out in the months ahead would be speculative at best, but it is looking like gun owners will be more actively engaged in the 2024 election cycle than they were last year for the mid-terms.
According to the new Rasmussen poll, 45 percent of likely voters would vote for Trump in an election rematch, while 39 percent would back Biden. Another 12 percent would vote for some other candidate, the veteran pollster found.
Rasmussen said the survey of 986 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on June 12-14, with a margin of sampling error at +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
The survey elicited some interesting data.
A majority of survey respondents (52%) think “Biden is a worse president than most recent presidents, compared to 32% who think Biden is better than most recent presidents.”
“Fifteen percent (15%) say Biden is about the same as most recent presidents,” Rasmussen reported.
The poll also revealed the predictable division along party lines, with 65 percent of Democrats saying the Biden administration is less corrupt than most recent administrations, while only 14 percent of Republicans and 29 percent of Independents concurring. Seventy-six percent of Republicans, 14 percent of Democrats and 48 percent of Independents think the Biden administration is more corrupt, Rasmussen said.
Meanwhile, 60% of Democrats think Biden is “better than most recent presidents,” but only 12 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Independents agree. Eighty-one percent of Republicans, 17 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Independents say Biden is worse than most recent presidents, Rasmussen noted.
All of this seems borne out by a separate Rasmussen survey which found only 30 percent of likely voters think the country is headed in the right direction. That’s down two points from a week ago.
On the other side of that question, a whopping 65 percent of voters think the nation is on the wrong track, the poll revealed. However, a year ago, only 24 percent said the country is on the right track and 70 percent said it was going the wrong way.
Second Amendment rights will be a major factor in the 2024 election, when the presidency, all U.S. House seats and several U.S. Senate seats will be on the ballot, and the outcome will determine whether Biden’s gun control agenda is continued for another four years.
