President Donald Trump earned a largely positive reaction to his speech, according to a CNN poll, which found that a strong majority felt Rep. Al Green’s behavior had been inappropriate.
Most people who watched President Donald Trump’s primetime address to a joint session of Congress had a positive opinion of what he spelled out in his speech, according to snap polls.
Trump has been moving at warp speed since his Jan. 20 inauguration, and he used his Tuesday speech to deliver a full-throated defense of his avalanche of activity, while repeatedly targeting former President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats.
According to a CNN instant poll, nearly seven in 10 respondents viewed Trump’s speech as positive {44% said very positive and 25% said somewhat positive), while 31% offered that they had a negative reaction (15% somewhat negative and 16% very negative).
There was a similar response in a snap survey conducted for CBS News on the speech, which lasted more than 90 minutes and was the longest address to a joint session of Congress or a State of the Union address in 60 years.
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Instant polls of State of the Union addresses or speeches to joint sessions of Congress are often favorable to the presidents delivering those speeches. That is because speech-watchers represent a small portion of the public, and they are usually much more likely to be from the president’s own party, which is reflected in the poll results.
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The CNN poll noted that “a total of 431 adults nationwide were surveyed via text message.”
“Among the entire sample, 21% described themselves as Democrats, 44% described themselves as Republicans, and 35% described themselves as independents or members of another party,” CNN explained. “The margin of sampling error for total respondents is +/-5.3 at the 95% confidence level.”
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, who was removed from the event for being disruptive, did not fare well in the court of public opinion.
A whopping 80% found Green’s behavior to be inappropriate, while just 20% felt it was appropriate, according to the CNN poll.
Trump’s address came less than two months into his second term in office.
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However, while he is still chipping away at the early days of his new term, the president is a well-known figure who has been on the political scene for years.
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He is now the second U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms — the first was Grover Cleveland in the 19th century.
CNN noted that 44% who had a very positive view of Trump’s speech is lower than the 57% who felt the same way in their instant poll of Trump’s address to Congress eight years ago, near the start of his first administration. Additionally, they pointed out that it was also four points lower than the 48% who gave Biden a big thumbs up in his initial address to Congress in 2021, at the start of his single term in the White House.
