Well, this is refreshing to see. That said, it is by no means a reason to rest on our laurels. If the 2024 election is a repeat of 2024, Trump vs. Biden, it’s going to be a tough one for many reasons. In 2020 we had the pandemic, and we can’t deny that helped Biden. Trump brings an energy that Biden simply does not. That said, Biden is also the incumbent and he’s the president, so he has an excuse to not throw 5 rallies a week.

According to a poll from NBC News, Trump is still very unpopular and so is the political movement created in his image, MAGA.

The Make America Great Again movement, which takes its name from Trump’s first campaign slogan, was the least popular individual or group tested in the new survey. Just 24% of Americans have positive views of the movement, while 45% voice negative views.

This data comes as Biden made Trump, and his movement, the centerpiece of his re-election launch video on Tuesday.

Biden in his video that “MAGA extremists are lining up to take those bedrock freedoms away.” Biden and his fellow Democrats often use the term “MAGA” as a catch-all to describe pro-Trump Republicans who embrace the former president’s more extreme positions, including his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours.

That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job. https://t.co/V9Mzpw8Sqy pic.twitter.com/Y4NXR6B8ly

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 25, 2023

A slight majority of Republicans, 52%, view the MAGA movement positively, as well as 53% of those who define themselves as conservative.

Independents also rated the movement negatively, with just 12% viewing it positively, while 45% say they have negative views of the movement.

Not surprisingly, more than a third of rural Americans have positive views of the movement, the highest of any geographic subgroup. And the movement received its highest mark from white Americans, with a 29% positive rating, of any racial subgroup. Again, not a surprise.

And of course on the other side, MAGA received its highest negative ratings from groups that make up the Democratic base: the higher educated, younger people, people of color, particularly Black people, and those who define themselves as liberals. You know, decent people.