Just 11 percent of voters believe that Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton would make “great” presidents, with far more believing that the duo would be poor to “terrible” in the Oval Office, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
In the poll of 1,525 registered voters, 35 percent said Clinton would make a good or great president, but 44 percent said she’d be poor or terrible, with a whopping 28 percent calling her “terrible.”
Nearly a third (31 percent) believe Trump would be either good or great, but half (52 percent) think he’d be a poor or terrible president, with 38 percent at “terrible,” said Pew.
As bad as those results are, among partisans Clinton and Trump look better. From Pew:
A majority (64%) of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters say Clinton would be either a good (43%) or great (21%) president. Just 11% say she would be poor or terrible, while 23% say she would be average.
About half of Democratic voters (51%) say Sanders would either make a good or great president; 13% say he would be poor or terrible and 26% say he would be average (11% of Democrats expressed no opinion of Sanders as a possible president).
And:
A majority (56%) of Republican voters say Trump would make a good or great president, while 22% say he would be poor or terrible, and 18% say he would make an average president.
More Republican voters also say Cruz would be a good or great president (53%) than either a poor or terrible president (13%), or an average one (25%).
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
