The majority of Republicans believe President Donald Trump is a better leader than former President Abraham Lincoln, a new survey suggests.

According to a poll released by the Economist/YouGov this week, 53 percent of Republicans chose Trump as the superior president over Lincoln - who steered the country through the Civil War era and later abolished slavery.

Republicans’ favorability of Trump marks a stark contrast to respondents who identified themselves as Democrats, with 94 percent of them selecting Lincoln as the greater commander in chief.

Among all Americans, Lincoln reigned supreme once again, beating Trump with a majority vote of 75 percent.

According to a new poll released by the Economist/YouGov this week, 53 percent of Republicans chose Trump as the superior president over Lincoln, who led the US between 1861 and 1865 - steering the country through the Civil War era and later abolishing slavery

Republicans’ favorability of Trump marks a stark contrast to respondents who identified themselves as Democrats, with 94 percent of them selecting Lincoln as the greater commander in chief. Among all Americans, Lincoln reigned supreme once again, beating Trump with a majority vote of 75 percent

While the impeachment inquiry and various other controversies continue to swell around Trump, polls show the sitting president maintains a strong approval rating among Republicans.

The Economist/YouGov poll found that 87 percent of those in the GOP either somewhat or strongly approve of the job he’s doing as president.

This is not the first time Trump has been compared with Lincoln, after the current president has previously boasted about his approval rating among supporters of the party, comparing it with that of Honest Abe.

‘You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party,’ Trump said in July, speaking to The Sun, later clarifying: ‘Beating Abe. I beat our Honest Abe.’

The poll immediately caused uproar on social media after Hillary Clinton’s former press secretary Jesse Ferguson tweeted the results revealing GOP supporters’ controversial presidential preference.

Shortly afterwards, ‘53% of Republicans’ began trending on Twitter.

The poll immediately caused uproar on social media after Hillary Clinton’s former press secretary Jesse Ferguson tweeted the results revealing GOP supporters’ controversial presidential preference

One subsequent reaction that garnered a lot of attention on social media was a GIF posted by actor Billy Baldwin, which showed an animated photo of the Lincoln Memorial with the former president holding up two middle fingers to Trump and Melania.

‘53% of Republicans apparently don’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was...,’ Baldwin wrote, accompanying the image.

John Lurie echoed: ‘53% of Republicans who look up when it is raining, will stand there with their mouths open, until they drown.

‘The thing I find most baffling about 53% of Republicans believing Trump is a better president than Lincoln is - how could anyone that stupid figure out how to vote in the poll?’ he mused in a later tweet.

The Economist/YouGov weekly tracking poll surveyed 1,500 Americans from November 24 to November 26 and has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points.

Further polling also found that Republicans preferred Trump to George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower—but not Ronald Reagan.

71 percent of Republicans said they preferred Trump over both George W. Bush and his father George H. W. Bush, while 82 percent preferred Trump to Ford; 86 percent preferred him to Nixon; and 65 percent preferred him to Eisenhower.

But in a head-to-head against Reagan, 59 percent of Republicans said they preferred the 40th president of the United States, compared to 41 percent siding with Trump.