President-elect Joe Biden during a briefing where he delivered remarks on the nation s response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 29, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Texas Democrats think Joe Biden is doing a good job as president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Texas Republicans don’t.
Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state’s most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden’s overall numbers, as with other officeholders in Texas, are starker partisan grades: 88% of Democrats said Biden is doing a good job, and 86% of Republicans disapprove of the work he’s doing.
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