Why the GOP is fretting about its inability to define Biden

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For the better part of a year now, Republicans have tried and largely failed to define Joe Biden — or even just to make people dislike him. And with his 100th day as president approaching, they’re admitting as much.

The Hill’s Jordain Carney spoke with a number of GOP senators who either tacitly or explicitly acknowledged their inability to set a tone in opposing Biden. Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.) said the GOP was doing “poorly” on this front. The No. 2-ranking Senate Republican, Sen. John Thune (S.D.), said, “We need to get better at it.” But “it’s probably harder to attack somebody who is relatable and likable,” he added. The party’s former No. 2 senator, John Cornyn (Tex.), agreed that “it’s always harder to fight against a nice person.”

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The standard measure is one’s approval rating. It stands at a pretty steady average of 53.3 percent in the FiveThirtyEight average of polls, compared with 40.6 percent disapproval — a net of plus-13 points.

That’s better than at any juncture of Trump’s presidency, which never peaked above majority support and was in net-positive territory (i.e., more people approving than disapproving) for only his first 10 days or so in office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/19/why-gop-is-fretting-about-its-inability-define-biden/

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1. Other polls have him at 59-61%. Althou 538 weights polls, rassumussen is an outlier drag