Another dire 2024 poll for Joe Biden: Trump widens his lead over the President to 6% with just six months left to Election Day

Donald Trump is maintaining a slight edge over Joe Biden in polls for the 2024 election with the latest showing the former president increasing his lead to 6 percent.

With just over six months until the November general elections, Trump is ahead with 49 percent to Biden's 43 percent, according to a new CNN/SSRS poll conducted April 18-23 and released on Sunday.

This is a steadily widening gap from head-to-head results of the same survey conducted in the last year.

The latest polling also shows that with more time passed from Trump's White House days, more voters are viewing his time in office positively.

CNN/SSRS polling shows Donald Trump widening his lead with President Joe Biden with a 6 percent split heading into the six-month countdown to Election Day

Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll released on Friday shows that compared to other presidents at this point in his term, Biden, 81, is the least popular commander-in-chief in the last seven decades.

Ranking below even Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter – who were wildly unpopular when rounding out their fourth year in office, Biden ranks at 38.7 percent job approval through the first quarter of 2024.

Trump in contrast had a 46.8 percent approval rating at this point in his presidency. Nixon and Carter had higher ratings than Biden at this point in their respective presidencies, with 53.7 percent and 47.7 percent approval.

The CNN/SSRS poll released on Sunday shows that among 1,212 Americans surveyed, 60 percent disapprove of Biden's job as president.

In results from two other polls conducted in January 2024 and October 2023 surveys through CNN/SSRS, Trump maintained his support among registered voters at 49 percent compared to the president's 45 percent.

The hypothetical general election matchup in August 2023 – more than a year before November's Election Day – showed Trump and Biden separated by just 1 percentage point (47 percent to 46 percent).

A separate poll from Gallup shows that compared to other presidents at this point in his term, Biden, 81, is the least popular commander-in-chief in the last seven decades. Pictured: Biden speaking to a room of journalists at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday

Trump and Biden both already earned the number of delegates needed by their respective parties to earn the nomination in 2024. This means the U.S. is on track for a rematch of 2020 that most voters said they did not want, according to multiple polls.

After the conventions over the summer, the two will solidify their nominations for president and head into a heated race for a seat behind the Resolute Desk.

In all of Gallup's polling history, there has never been a president that has returned to the White House for a second term with approval ratings as low as Biden's. His ranking falls within the button 12 percent of presidential quarters spanning back to 1945.