Trump's presidency viewed more favorably than Biden's, post-debate poll finds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Trump has got to go.
64% : "I feel like the economy was better under Trump," he said, pointing to inflation under Biden.
64% : In terms of leadership qualities, 63% of poll respondents said Trump has a "vision for the country," compared to 54% who said the same of Biden.
58% : "I'm a supporter of Biden and I'm a supporter of anti-Trump," he said.Shalia Murray, 57, of Round Rock, Texas, said she is still convinced Biden is the better candidate than Trump after the debate.
57% : More voters, 46% to 42%, also said Trump will keep his promises as president.
57% : Sixty percent of respondents said Biden has the right experience to be president; 52% said Trump does.
53% : "The country was running just fine four or five years ago with him, and I can only see him doing a better job than he did last time because he has four years of experience," said Zach Anderson, a 30-year-old maintenance technician form the south side of Chicago, who said he plans to vote for Trump.
50% : Registered voters also trust Trump to handle immigration 53% to 40% over Biden; national security, 52% to 42%; and dealing with China, 51% to 41%.
47% : Americans, by a 54% to 40% margin, believe Trump would do a better handling the economy than Biden.
42% : "But I'd vote for him hands down before I vote for Trump.
33% : But Sutton made clear he will vote for the Democrat running against Trump.
32% : The poll also found voters view Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, more capable of handling national security issues and dealing with China.
31% : Trump left the White House in 2021 with a 34% Gallup approval rating, his all-time low.
31% : Still, many Democrats and anti-Trump independent voters said in a race against Trump, they're happy to back Biden.
21% : And even though Trump "may have been more coherent and easily understood" in the debate, she said she felt he was "lying and exaggerating.
20% : Biden received higher marks than Trump on just two of six key issues surveyed: handling race relations and health care.
20% : As for Biden, Anderson said: "I think he's just gotten old and there's signs of dementia or something."David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk Political Research Center, said Biden and Trump are both disliked by a similar majority of Americans - Biden was viewed unfavorably by 57% of voters in the poll and Trump by 55%.
16% : "Nearly 60% of Americans view Trump as someone "who can get things done," compared to 44% for Biden - even though Biden succeeded in getting sweeping laws passed in a divided Congress to address the climate, domestic manufacturing and historic infrastructure spending that Trump promised but failed to deliver in his four-year term.
14% : "Biden seems too old, and Trump can't tell the truth," said Steve Sutton, 55, who works in information technology in Seattle.
11% : Yet the poll found that Democrats are far more open to dumping Biden for a new nominee than Republicans are of abandoning Trump.
8% : More registered voters believe former President Donald Trump would do a better job than President Joe Biden tackling two of the top issues of the 2024 campaign, the economy and immigration, according to an exclusive poll by USA TODAY/Suffolk University taken after Biden's disastrous debate with Trump.

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