The new poll shows Biden leaving office with approval ratings still buried deep in negative territory

A new national survey indicates that President Biden’s Approval ratings remain deeply underwater as the nation’s 46th president is just days away from leaving office.

Only 36% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing in the White House, according to the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with 64% saying they disapprove. The approval rating matches the president’s previous low mark in the cable news network’s poll during Biden’s only term.

The poll was released Wednesday, just hours before the president delivered his prime-time farewell address to the nation, with just days left until Biden’s term ends and he succeeds him. President-elect Trump in the White House.

Biden’s approval rating sits at 43%, slightly higher but still in negative territory, in national USA Today/Suffolk University polls and Marist College which, along with the CNN poll, were conducted earlier this month.

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The trio of polls also indicate that many Americans see Biden’s presidency as a failure.

Sixty-one percent of those questioned al CNN poll said they see Biden’s presidency overall as a failure, with 38% seeing it as a success.

According to the USA Today/Suffolk University Poll, that was released Tuesday, 44 percent of registered voters said history will judge Biden as a failed president, and 27 percent said he will be judged as a fair president. Twenty-one percent of those polled said history will see Biden as a good president, and only 5% said he will be seen as a great president.

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Just over a third of adults nationwide questioned in the Marist poll, which was released Wednesday, said Biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history, with 19 percent saying who will be considered a below average president.

Twenty-eight percent of respondents offered that Biden’s legacy will be considered average, and 19% said he would be considered above average or one of the best presidents in the country’s history.

In his Oval Office speech, Biden will likely seek to cement his legacy as a president who pushed to stabilize politics at home while strengthening America’s leadership abroad, and as a leader who brought the nation from the COVID-19 pandemic and made historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy while lowering prescription drug prices.

Biden, in a letter to Americans published early Wednesday morning, emphasized that when he took office four years ago “we were facing the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the worst attack on our country’s democracy since the Civil War.”

And he claimed that “today we have the strongest economy in the world and we’ve created a record 16.6 million new jobs. Wages are up. Inflation continues to fall. The racial wealth gap is the lowest it’s ever been it’s been in 20 years.”

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Biden’s approval rating hovered in the low 50s during his first six months in the White House. However, the president’s numbers began to drop in August 2021 in the wake of Biden’s much-criticized handling of the turmoil. US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and after a spike in COVID-19 cases that summer that occurred mostly among unvaccinated people.

The drop in the president’s approval rating was also fueled by rising inflation, which began rising in the summer of 2021 and remains a major concern for Americans’ pocketbooks to date. and the increase in migrants trying to cross into the US throughout the southern border

Biden’s approval ratings went underwater in the fall of 2021 and never resurfaced in positive territory.

The president’s single term in the White House ends on Monday, January 20, when Trump is inaugurated as Biden’s successor.

However, according to the USA Today/Suffolk University poll, 44 percent also said Trump will be seen by history as a failed president.

One in five said Trump would be seen as a great president, with 19% saying good and 27% saying he would be judged a fair president.

Trump finished his first term in office with approval ratings in negative territory, including 47% approval Fox News poll four years ago

In Marist polls four years ago, when Trump finished his first term, 47% thought he would be remembered as one of the nation’s worst presidents.

As Trump prepares to retake the presidency, the Marist poll indicates that opinions of him remain low, with 44 percent of Americans viewing him favorably and 49 percent having an unfavorable view of the new president.

However, views of Trump’s first term have risen in numerous polls since his landslide victory in November’s presidential election over Vice President Kamala Harris. The vice president succeeded Biden in July as the Democratic standard-bearer in 2024 after the president dropped out of the race following a disastrous debate against Trump.

The poll also indicates that Americans have high expectations of Trump regarding the economy.

“While many Americans feel that the current economy is not working well for them, residents nationwide have become more optimistic about the future of their own finances,” the survey release noted.

The poll also indicated that Americans are divided over Trump’s proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

According to the poll, more than six in 10 disapprove of Trump’s promise to induct supporters who were convicted in the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.

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The Marist survey was conducted from January 7 to 9, with 1,387 adults across the country questioned. The overall sampling error of the survey is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

The CNN poll was conducted Jan. 9-12, with 1,205 adults nationwide questioned. The overall sampling error of the survey is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.