With less than a week to go President Biden After his term in the White House ends, 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 across the country said history will evaluate Biden as a failed president, while another 27% said he will be judged as a fair president.
21% of those surveyed said history will view Biden as a good president, while only 5% said he will be viewed as a great president.
The president's only term in the White House ends next Monday, January 20 President-elect Donald Trump He was installed as Biden's successor.
A majority of Americans say this is how they would view a Biden presidency
President Biden is seen speaking from the Roosevelt Room about the jobs report and the state of the economy at the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 10, 2025. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
However, according to the poll, 44% also say that history will view Trump as a failed president.
One in five say Trump, who begins his second term next week, would be seen as a great president, with 19% saying he is good and 27% saying he would be judged a fair president.
Trump finished his first term in office with negative approval ratings, including 47% approval Fox News poll Four years ago.
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However, opinions about Trump's first term have risen in polls since his convincing victory in November's presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris. He succeeded Vice President Biden in July as the Democratic standard-bearer in the 2024 election after the president withdrew from the race following a disastrous debate performance against Trump.
According to a USA Today/Suffolk poll, 52% of those surveyed said they approved of the work Trump did during his first term in office, while 45% disapproved.
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 Palaiologos, director of the Center for Policy Research at Suffolk University, noted that the change over the past four years has been particularly significant among independent voters.
“Donald Trump has essentially eliminated his overwhelmingly negative personal popularity between December 2020 and today among independents,” Palaiologos said. “Trump went from a minus of 22 (35% favorable – 57% unfavorable) to a negligible minus (42% favorable – 47% unfavorable)” among a group that typically swings elections.
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Looking to the future, 31% said they were excited about Trump returning to the White House, while 18% said they were satisfied. But 12% said they were depressed and 31% were afraid of 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, January 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Bals Sinita)
According to the poll, 43% say they approve of the work that Biden did as president upon leaving office, compared to 54% who disapprove.
Biden's approval rating ranged between the low and mid-50s during his first six months in the White House. However, the president's numbers began to decline in August 2021 in the wake of Biden's much-criticized handling of the tumultuous crisis. America's exit from Afghanistan After a spike in Covid-19 cases that summer, especially among unvaccinated people.
The decline in the president's approval was also driven by rising inflation — which began rising in the summer of 2021 and so far remains a major concern for Americans — and an increase in migrants trying to cross into the United States along the border. Southern border With Mexico.
Biden's approval ratings dipped below zero in the fall of 2021 and never returned to positive territory.
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according to USA Today/Suffolk University Poll, Nearly a quarter of respondents were hesitant when asked to name Biden's biggest accomplishment as president. 19% of them said that they invest in infrastructure. Ten percent said combating the COVID-19 pandemic, which was the top health and economic concern among Americans when Biden took office four years ago.
As for his biggest failure as president, just over three in ten pointed to Biden handing over the immigration issue, with 20% offering a chaotic withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021.
The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters across the country by telephone. It was conducted January 7-1, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
