More than half of Americans say so President Biden will be remembered as a below-average or one of the worst presidents in the country’s history, according to a new national poll.
Just over a third of adults surveyed nationally in a Marist poll released Wednesday said Biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, while another 19% say he will be remembered as a below-average president are considered.
Twenty-eight percent of participants said Biden’s legacy will be considered average, while 19% said he would be considered an above-average or one of the best presidents in the country’s history.
The poll was released just hours before the president delivered his farewell address to the nation, with just days left before Biden’s term ends and he will be succeeded by President-elect Trump at the White House.
WILL HISTORY BE FRIENDLY OR UNFRIENDLY TO PRESIDENT BIDEN?
With less than a week left until his term ends, President Biden will deliver a speech at the State Department in Washington, DC on January 13, 2025. (AP)
In his Oval Office address, Biden will likely look to cement his legacy as a president who pushed to stabilize politics at home while strengthening American leadership abroad, and as a leader who led the nation out of the COVID-19 pandemic and made historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy.
The Marist Poll is the second consecutive national survey indicating that history is unlikely to look kindly on Biden.
According to one Research from USA Today/Suffolk University released Tuesday, 44% of voters nationwide said history will judge Biden as a failed president, while another 27% say he will be judged as an honest president.
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Twenty-one percent of respondents said history will view Biden as a good president, while only 5% say he will be viewed as a great president.
The president’s sole term in the White House ends next Monday, January 20, when Trump is inaugurated as Biden’s successor.
However, according to the USA Today/Suffolk University poll, 44% also said Trump will be seen by history as a failed president.
President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 7, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
One in five said Trump would be viewed as a great president, with 19% saying the right thing and 27% saying he would be viewed as a fair president.
Trump ended his first term with a negative approval rating, including a 47% approval rating Fox News Poll from four years ago.
In the Marist poll four years ago, as Trump ended his first term, 47% thought he would be remembered as one of the country’s worst presidents.
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Biden is at 42% approval and 50% disapproval in Marist’s new survey, as the president leaves the White House. He stood at 43%-54% approval/disapproval in the USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
Biden’s approval rating has hovered 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 due to Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turbulent crisis. US exit from Afghanistan, and after a surge in COVID-19 cases that summer, it was mostly among unvaccinated people.
The decline in the president’s approval rating was also fueled by surging inflation — which began to spike in the summer of 2021 and remains a major concern for Americans today — and the wave of migrants trying to cross the U.S. border to enter the US. southern border.
Biden’s approval ratings dipped in the fall of 2021 and never returned to positive territory.
President Biden, right, meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
As Trump prepares to take the presidency again, the Marist poll shows that opinions of him remain low, with 44% of Americans viewing him favorably and 49% having an unfavorable opinion of the incoming president.
However, opinions about Trump’s first term have risen in numerous polls since his convincing victory in November’s presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris. The vice president succeeded Biden in July as the Democrats’ 2024 standard-bearer, after the president withdrew from the race following a disastrous debate against Trump.
The poll also shows that Americans have high expectations of Trump when it comes to the economy.
“While many Americans feel like the current economy is not working well for them, nationally, residents have become more optimistic about the future of their own finances,” the poll points out.
The survey also indicates that Americans are divided over Trump’s proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
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More than six in 10 disapprove of Trump’s promise to pardon his supporters convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to the poll.
The Marist Survey was conducted from January 7 to 9, interviewing 1,387 adults from across the country. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
