Texas Democrats think is doing a good job as president, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Texas Republicans don鈥檛.
Overall, the president gets good grades from 44% of Texas voters and bad grades from 46% 鈥� numbers that are better or roughly the same as the state鈥檚 most popular Republican leaders. Underneath Biden鈥檚 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鈥檚 doing.
Biden does a little better 鈥� but still poorly 鈥� with Republicans on how he鈥檚 handled the response to the pandemic; 14% approve, and 67% disapprove. But 92% of Democrats approve. And overall, 49% of Texas voters give Biden good grades on the pandemic, while 35% think he鈥檚 done a bad job.
Overall, 38% approve of Biden鈥檚 handling of the economy and 46% disapprove. Only 23% of voters approve of his response to immigration and border security, while 59% disapprove.
A 55% majority of Texas voters disapprove of the job the U.S. Congress is doing; 24% said they approve, but only 4% strongly approve. It鈥檚 a Democratic Congress, getting good grades from 49% of Texas Democrats. Among Republicans, 82% disapprove of the work being done in the U.S. Capitol.
The state鈥檚 U.S. senators are getting better grades than Congress as a whole. gets approving notices from 31% of all voters and disapproving ones from 43%. Among his fellow Republicans, 57% approve and 18% disapprove of his work.
, overall, has the approval of 43% and disapproval from 48%. He鈥檚 more popular with Texas Republicans than the senior senator, too, with 80% saying they approve of the job he鈥檚 doing 鈥� 57% strongly so.
Gov. gets good marks from about as many Texas voters (43%) as give him bad marks (45%). He鈥檚 popular with Republicans, though: 77% approve of the way he鈥檚 doing his job. Those numbers are consistent with the way voters grade the governor on his response to the pandemic. Overall, 43% approve and 48% disapprove. Among Democrats, 87% disapprove, and among Republicans, 76% approve.
Just over a third of Texas voters (35%) approve of the way Republican Lt. Gov. is doing his job, while 39% disapprove. New House Speaker , a Republican, still hasn鈥檛 made an impression on most voters 鈥� a condition he has in common with most of his predecessors in that post. While 20% of voters said he鈥檚 doing a good job, and 22% said he鈥檚 not, 57% of the voters either have no impression of him or no opinion.
Attorney General , regularly in the news for legal actions involving the state and as the subject of an indictment on securities fraud and a federal investigation into allegedly using his public office to help a campaign donor, is doing a good job, according to 32% of Texas voters, and a bad one, according to 36%. The remaining 30% either had a neutral or no opinion. Among Republicans, 59% said he鈥檚 doing a good job, and among Democrats, 68% said he鈥檚 doing a bad job.
The University of Texas/Texas Tribune internet survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted from April 16-22 and has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points. Numbers in charts might not add up to 100% because of rounding.