Most Americans consider Biden a ‘failed’ or ‘fair’ president: new poll
Less than a week before President Biden’s White House sunset, a new national poll suggests that many Americans don’t think history will be kind to him.
According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Tuesday, 44% of voters nationwide rate Biden as a failed president, while another 27% say they judge him as a fair president.
Of those asked, 21 percent said they see Biden as a good president, while only 5 percent said they see him as a great president.
The president’s single term in office will end next Monday, January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated as Biden’s successor.
Most Americans say that this is how they see Biden’s presidency
President Biden looks on from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on January 10, 2025, speaking about the jobs report and the state of the economy. (Reuters/Elizabeth Franz)
However, according to the poll, 44% say Trump is viewed as a historically failed president.
One in five say Trump, who begins his second term next week, is seen as a great president, 19% say he is good, and 27% say he is judged a fair president.
Trump ended his first term with an approval rating in negative territory, including a 47% approval rating in a Fox News poll four years ago.
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However, after his landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, comments about Trump’s first term have increased. He replaced Biden in July as the Democrats’ 2024 standard-bearer after the president dropped out of the race following his disastrous debate performance against Trump.
According to a USA Today/Suffolk poll, 52% of those surveyed said they approved of Trump’s first-term job performance, while 45% gave it the thumbs up.
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 Palologos, director of Suffolk University’s Center for Political Research, pointed out that the changes that have occurred in the past four years are particularly significant among independent voters.
“Donald Trump has erased his negative personal popularity among independents in December 2020 and today,” Paleologos said. Among a group that typically swings polls, “Trump dropped from 22 (35% favorable – 57% unfavorable) to 5 (42% favorable – 47% unfavorable).
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Looking ahead, 31% said they were happy to have Trump back in the White House, and 18% said they were satisfied. However, 12% said they were worried and 31% feared a second Trump presidency.
President Biden speaks at a reception for new Democratic members of Congress in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
According to the poll, 43% approve of Biden’s job as president when he leaves office, while 54% disapprove.
Biden’s approval rating has 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 following Biden’s much-criticized handling of the violence. The US left Afghanistan And that summer followed a spike in Covid-19 cases, particularly among unvaccinated people.
The decline in the president’s approval was due to high inflation. It began to decline in the summer of 2021 and continues to this day because of the huge wallet concerns of Americans — and the number of immigrants trying to cross into the United States. South border with Mexico.
Biden’s approval ratings have slipped into positive territory by the end of 2021.
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As he says USA Today/Suffolk University Poll; When asked to name Biden’s biggest accomplishment as president, nearly a quarter of respondents were undecided. Nineteen percent said investment in infrastructure. Ten percent said fighting the COVID-19 pandemic was the top health and economic threat to Americans when Biden took office four years ago.
As for the biggest failure of his presidency, more than ten percent of the respondents said they were concerned about Biden’s immigration delivery, with 20% calling for the withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan by the summer of 2021.
The poll polled 1,000 registered voters nationwide. It has been trailed 7-1 since January, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
