A new Gallup poll finds that President-elect Joe Biden has a 55% favorable rating and a 41% unfavorable rating.
The same poll gives President Trump a 42% favorable rating and a 57% unfavorable rating.
Biden’s current rating is the highest it has been since February 2019, two months before he declared his candidacy for president, when it was 56%.
Trump’s latest favorability falls short of the highest of his presidency, 49% in April, during the initial stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
The increase in Biden’s favorability between Gallup’s final preelection and first postelection readings is driven by independents and Republicans, whose positive ratings of Biden grew from 48% to 55% and 6% to 12%, respectively.
Democrats’ nearly unanimous positive ratings remained constant.
Biden is also enjoying a post-election, pre–White House bounce in popularity, according to a new Fortune-SurveyMonkey poll.
The former Vice President currently has a net favorability of +16, more than 2.5 times the +6 favorability rating he had heading into the November election against Trump.
At the time, Trump had a net favorability of -13.
Biden’s sudden jump may have been propelled by negative reactions to Trump’s inability to accept the results of the presidential election.
Trump refuses to concede the election and has taken legal action in a number of states to challenge voting results.
Nearly all of those challenges have been unsuccessful in the courts.
Many battleground states have begun the process of certifying their election counts.
Biden’s favorability is largely bolstered by women, the Fortune-SurveyMonkey poll found.
The President-elect is +28 with women and +0 with men.
Favorability fell neatly along party lines with the majority of Democrats approving of the President-elect and the majority of Republicans rating him unfavorably.
Independent votes, however, overwhelmingly viewed Biden in a positive light.