According to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Tuesday, most Americans will remember Joe Biden’s presidency as either “failed” or “fair.”
44% of voters nationwide say history will remember Biden as a failed president, with another 27% saying he will be judged as a fair president.
Only 21% say Biden will be remembered as “good” — and only 5% as “great.”
According to the same poll, 52% of those surveyed say they approve of the job Trump did during his first term in office, with 45% giving him a thumbs down.
Suffolk University Political Research Center director David Paleologos noted that the change over the past four years was particularly significant among independent voters.
“Donald Trump essentially wiped out his overwhelming negative personal popularity between December 2020 and today among independents,” Paleologos said. “Trump went from a whopping minus 22 (35% favorable ‒ 57% unfavorable) to a negligible minus 5 (42% favorable ‒ 47% unfavorable)” among the group that typically swings elections.
From Fox News:
Looking ahead, 31% said they were excited Trump was returning to the White House, with 18% saying they were satisfied. However, 12% said they were depressed and 31% are afraid of a second Trump presidency.
According to the poll, 43% say they approve of the job Biden’s done as president as he leaves office, with 54% disapproving.
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 started sagging in August 2021 in the wake of Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and following a surge in COVID-19 cases that summer, mainly among unvaccinated people.
The plunge in the president’s approval was also fueled by soaring inflation – which started spiking in the summer of 2021 and remains to date a major pocketbook concern with Americans – and the surge of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. along the southern border with Mexico.
Biden’s approval ratings slipped underwater in the autumn of 2021 and never reemerged into positive territory.
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