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

This is shown by a new national survey President Biden approval ratings remain underwater as the country’s 46th president is just days away from leaving office.

According to the latest CNN poll conducted by SSRS, only 36% of Americans approve of Biden’s job in the White House, and 64% said they disapprove. The approval rating matches the president’s previous low rating in the cable news network survey during Biden’s only term.

The poll was released Wednesday, just hours before the president delivers his prime-time farewell address to the nation, with just days left before Biden’s term and his legacy end. President-elect Trump in the White House.

Biden’s approval rating is at 43% — up slightly but still in negative territory — in national USA Today/Suffolk University polls and Marist High School which, along with CNN’s research, were conducted earlier this month.

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

Sixty-one percent of respondents in CNN research they said they generally see Biden’s presidency as a failure, with 38% seeing it as a success.

According to USA Today/Suffolk University research, released Tuesday, 44% of registered voters said history would judge Biden as a failed president, while 27% said he would be judged a fair president. Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said history will see Biden as a good president, while only 5% say he will be considered a great president.

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Just over a third of adults nationwide surveyed in a Marist poll released Wednesday said Biden would be remembered as one of the worst presidents in American history, and 19% said he would be considered a below-average president.

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

In his Oval Office speech, Biden will likely seek to cement his legacy as a president who sought 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 while reducing prescription drug prices.

In a letter to Americans released early Wednesday morning, Biden stressed that when he took office four years ago, “we were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracies since the Civil War.”

And he said 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 been in 20 years.”

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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 began to slide in August 2021 after Biden’s much-criticized behavior in the turbulent US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and after a spike in COVID-19 cases that summer that was mostly among unvaccinated people.

The decline in the president’s approval rating has also been fueled by skyrocketing inflation — which began rising in the summer of 2021 and remains Americans’ top pocketbook concern to this day — and a wave of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. along southern border.

Biden’s approval rating slipped in the fall of 2021 and never returned to positive territory.

The president’s unique 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% also said Trump will be seen in history as a failed president.

One in five said they would consider Trump an excellent president, 19% said he was good, and 27% said they would rate him as a fair president.

Trump ended his first term with negative approval ratings, including a 47% approval rating in the Fox News poll from four years ago.

In a Marist poll 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, a Marist poll shows opinions of him remain low, with 44% of Americans viewing him favorably and 49% having an unfavorable view of the incoming president.

But opinions of Trump’s first term have risen in a number of 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 shows that Americans have high expectations of Trump when it comes to the economy.

“While many Americans feel that the current economy is not doing well, residents nationally have become more optimistic about the future of their finances,” the poll said in a release.

The survey also found Americans divided over Trump’s proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

More than six in 10 disapprove of Trump’s promise to pardon supporters convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol, according to the poll.

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

The CNN poll was conducted Jan. 9-12, and surveyed 1,205 adults across the country. The overall sampling error of the survey is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.