As the White House sunsets with less than a week left until the end of President Biden's term, a new national poll shows many Americans don't think history will be kind to him.
A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Tuesday found that 44% of voters nationwide say history will judge Biden as a failed president, and another 27% say he will be judged as a fair president. I answered that I was deaf.
Of those asked, 21% said history would view Biden as a good president, but just 5% said Biden would be viewed as a great president.
The president's single term in the White House ends next Monday, January 20, as President-elect Donald Trump takes over as Biden's successor.
A majority of Americans say this is how they will view President Biden's term.
President Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room on employment statistics and economic conditions at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2025. (Reuters/Elizabeth Franz)
But the poll also found that 44% said Trump would be seen as the most unsuccessful president in history.
One in five say Trump, who begins his second term next week, is seen as a great president, with 19% saying he would be seen as a good president and 27% saying he would be seen as a fair president. did.
President Trump ended his first term with negative approval ratings, including a 47% approval rating in a Fox News poll four years ago.
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However, since Mr. Trump won an overwhelming victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election in November, opinion polls conducted have shown that opinion of Mr. Trump's first term has increased. The vice president succeeded Biden as the 2024 Democratic standard-bearer in July after the president withdrew from the race following his disastrous debate performance against Trump.
According to the USA Today/Suffolk poll, 52% of those surveyed said they approve of the job President Trump did during his first term, while 45% have a negative opinion of him.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 7, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
David Paleologos, director of the Center for Political Research at Suffolk University, said the changes over the past four years have been particularly pronounced among independent voters.
“Donald Trump essentially wiped out his overwhelmingly negative personal popularity among independents between December 2020 and today,” Paleologos said. “Trump went from a whopping -22 (35% favorable, 57% unfavorable) to a minuscule -5 (42% favorable, 47% unfavorable) among the group that typically swings in elections.”
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Looking ahead, 31% said they were excited to have Trump back in the White House, and 18% said they were satisfied. However, 12% said they were depressed, and 31% said they feared Trump's re-election.
President Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House on Sunday, January 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Seneta)
According to the poll, 43% said they approve of the job Biden has done as president as he leaves office, while 54% disapprove.
Biden's approval rating hovered in the low to mid-50s during his first six months in the White House. However, the president's numbers began to decline in August 2021 after his handling of the chaos was heavily criticized. US withdrawal from Afghanistan And that summer, in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases, primarily among unvaccinated people.
The president's plummeting approval ratings are due to skyrocketing inflation (which began rising sharply in the summer of 2021 and remains a major drain on Americans' pockets to this day) and a surge in migrants attempting to enter the United States along the river. It was also accelerated by southern border With Mexico.
Biden's approval rating plummeted in the fall of 2021 and never returned to positive territory.
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According to USA Today/Suffolk University poll, When asked to name Biden's greatest accomplishment as president, nearly a quarter of respondents were undecided. 19% said they would invest in infrastructure. Ten percent said fighting the COVID-19 pandemic was the top health and economic concern for Americans when Biden took office four years ago.
When asked about the biggest failure of his presidency, just over 3 in 10 cited Biden's immigration policies, while 20% cited the disorderly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021.
The poll was conducted by telephone to 1,000 registered voters nationwide. The survey was conducted between January 7 and January 1, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
