44% of Voters Rate Biden’s European Trip a Success

President Joe Biden just completed a weeklong trip to Europe that included the G7 summit and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but less than half of voters think his European trip was successful.

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and The National Pulse finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Biden’s trip to Europe was successful, including 22% who rate it Very Successful. Forty percent (40%) don’t think Biden’s European trip was successful, including 27% who say it was Not At All Successful. Another 15% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Twenty-five percent (25%) of voters rate the way President Biden is handling foreign policy issues as excellent, while another 17% rate Biden’s handling of foreign policy good. Fourteen percent (14%) say Biden has done a fair job of handling foreign policy and 39% give him a poor rating.

Three years ago, 47% voters rated former President Trump’s handling of foreign policy either excellent or good, higher than the 42% who now rate Biden excellent or good on foreign policy.

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The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on June 16-17, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports and The National Pulse. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Voters are divided as to whether Biden is doing better than Trump on foreign policy. Forty-four percent (44%) say Biden's handling of foreign policy is better than Trump’s, but 42% say Biden is worse than Trump. Ten percent (10%) say Biden’s handling of foreign policy is about the same as Trump’s.

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Democratic voters rate Biden’s European trip a success, but only 21% of Republicans and 40% of voters not affiliated with either major party agree. Sixty-four percent (64%) of GOP voters say Biden’s trip to Europe was not successful, a view shared by 17% of Democrats and 43% of unaffiliated voters.

Black voters (36%) are much more likely than whites (19%) or other minorities (18%) to say Biden’s European trip was Very Successful. Likewise, more blacks (38%) than whites (24%) or other minorities (22%) give Biden an excellent rating for his handling of foreign policy.

Younger voters are more likely than their elders to prefer Biden to Trump on foreign policy. Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters under 40 say Biden’s handling of foreign policy is better than Trump’s, and just 32% say Trump was better. By contrast, among voters 65 and older, only 39% think Biden is better than Trump in handling foreign policy, while 52% say Biden is worse.

Among voters who rate Biden excellent for his handling of foreign policy, 71% say his European trip was Very Successful, but among voters who rate Biden’s handling of foreign policy as poor, 68% say his trip to Europe was Not Successful At All.

Fewer than a third of voters believe President Biden is a stronger leader than most recent presidents, and a majority view him as less aggressive in his dealings with foreign leaders.

Most American voters don’t think the U.S.-Israel relationship has improved since President Biden took office.

Additional information from this survey and a full demographic breakdown are available to the public, as well as Platinum Members.

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