Europeans overwhelmingly want Biden to defeat 'terrible' Trump, new poll finds

• Large majorities of people in YouGov polls of seven European countries wanted Joe Biden to defeat President Donald Trump in the US election.
• People were polled in Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Britain, Denmark, and Italy.
• In Denmark, just 6% of people told YouGov they wanted Trump to win reelection. Trump had the most support in Italy, where 20% of respondents said they wanted him to win.
• Most people surveyed in the seven countries rated Trump's performance in the White House as "terrible/poor."

Europeans overwhelmingly want Joe Biden to defeat Donald Trump, who they see as a "terrible" US president, a new YouGov poll of seven European nations has found.

YouGov asked citizens in Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Britain, Denmark, and Italy who they wanted to win this year's US election.

Large majorities in all the countries polled backed Biden, with only small minorities backing the president.

Trump was least popular in Denmark, where just 6% of Danes said they wanted him to win the election, compared with 80% who said they wanted Biden.

Trump on Wednesday tweeted that he was "looking forward to working with" UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for "many years to come."

In Britain, however, nearly two-thirds of respondents — 61% — said they wanted Biden to win the election, while just 13% said they were backing Trump.

Trump received the most support in Italy, YouGov's survey found, but the portion of respondents there who said they wanted Trump to win reelection was still just 20%, while 58% said they wanted Biden to win.

Trump also scored badly when people in the seven countries were asked to judge his performance as president since being elected in 2016.

Just 5% to 15% of respondents said his performance had been "great/good" while large majorities said it been "terrible/poor." In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has had frosty relations with the White House since Trump's election four years ago, just 9% of people said Trump's performance had been great or good, while 75% said he had been terrible or poor.

While Trump is distinctly unpopular across the seven European countries, there was not overwhelming enthusiasm for Biden as a candidate.

Pluralities of respondents in each country said either that he would make an "average" president or that they "don't know" how they thought Biden would perform if elected. Few respondents said Biden would be terrible or poor (those saying that ranged from 6% in Denmark to 13% in Sweden and the UK), while 17% to 23% of respondents in the various countries said he would be good or great in office.

YouGov surveyed 9,136 people across the seven countries from September 15 to October 4.