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Americans are united by a commonly shared distaste for their leaders, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News survey.

The poll, which was conducted between Jan. 21 and 24 and sampled 1,001 U.S. adults, found that a majority of respondents are dead set against voting for President Trump should he run again in the 2020 election.

A full 56 percent the survey’s respondents said they “Definitely would NOT vote for” him if he runs again as the GOP nominee, while a much smaller 14 percent say they “Would consider voting for” his re-election bid. The survey has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Only 28 percent of respondents gave a hard “yes” when they were asked if they “Definitely would vote for” him.

Those are not great numbers for the president. Obviously.

He will need to turn these figures around fast, and there’s only so much he can do now that he has the support of only one chamber of Congress. Then again, he can always gamble his re-election chances on the sheer incompetence of his 2020 challenger. It worked for him in 2016, running against someone who was less likeable than himself. He might luck out again in two years and have the good fortune of running opposite another monument to hubris.

[Read more: The challenge for any 2020 primary challenge to Trump]

Speaking of troubles, the Democrats may have a problem of their own, based on the numbers reported in the Washington Post-ABC News survey.

The survey’s 447 “Leaned Democrats” were given a choice of liberal candidates to rank. They were asked, “If the 2020 Democratic primary or caucus in your state were being held today, for whom would you vote?” The choices include former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, former first lady Michelle Obama, two-time losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey.

The overwhelming majority (43 percent) of respondents identified as “Leaned Democrat” said they had “no opinion.” Not a single name offered by the survey’s administrators broke double-digits. Not even Oprah. Biden leads the competition with a whopping 9 percent, while Sen. Harris trails directly behind him with 8 percent. Clinton, who was billed in 2016 as the most qualified presidential candidate in U.S. history, came in at only 1 percent. She is tied with “Someone New,” which also came in at 1 percent.

When the “Leaned Democrat” respondents were asked to offer their choice to run against the Republican nominee in 2020, 56 percent of them offered nothing. In other words, there is no clear front-runner for the opposition party, and there is no clear, enthusiastic support for any likely Democratic contender, even as the 2020 campaign season is underway and as the president’s approval numbers are at all-time lows. “Indecision reigns,” as the Washington Post put it.

And if there’s one person who knows how to capitalize on the indecisiveness of his opponents, it’s the chaos agent in the White House.