President Joe Biden will soon be heading for the exits, delivering a few final speeches -- but reportedly not a term-ending press conference -- on his way out the door. As the end of the disastrous Biden era finally comes to a close, the American people are making their views known on how they assess the 46th president's job performance. The reviews are...unkind. Across multiple polls, Biden is slumping and sagging toward the finish line, with strong majorities disapproving of how he's handled the country's business.
Given the national mood after January 6th, 2021 -- in the throes of the pandemic -- this is a devastating indictment:
Biden going lower than Trump after Jan 6 as he leaves office. Woof. https://t.co/VmTDkOc9uA
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) January 10, 2025
A new Associated Press survey asked Americans how Biden's lone term will be remembered. The results were heavily negative:
AP/NORC poll
— Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) January 10, 2025
Do you think Joe Biden/Donald Trump/Barack Obama was a great, good, average, poor or terrible president?
12/5-12/9 | 1,251 adults surveyed
Published 1/10/2025 pic.twitter.com/4zFGqIJ2eb
As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second, a new poll finds. Around one-quarter of U.S. adults said Biden was a “good” or “great” president, with less than 1 in 10 saying he was “great,” according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research...It’s a stark illustration of how tarnished Biden’s legacy has become, with many members of his own party seeing his Democratic presidency as merely mediocre...Those findings are consistent with data released this week by Gallup, which found Biden’s standing similar to that of President Richard Nixon after the Republican resigned during the Watergate scandal...In the new poll, disappointment was especially palpable among Black and Hispanic Americans, who have traditionally leaned Democratic but shifted in larger numbers toward Trump in 2024.
Team Biden is just tweeting and punditing their way through it -- or trying to, at least:
After decades of trickle-down economics that primarily benefitted those at the very top, Kamala and I wrote a new playbook that’s growing the economy from the middle-out and bottom-up and would benefit everyone.
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 12, 2025
The new playbook is working. pic.twitter.com/yPf1TODTrQ
🚨Wow. Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor @JakeSullivan46 just said this with a straight face:
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) January 12, 2025
“The American people are safer and the country is better off than we were four years ago.” pic.twitter.com/jJienj5PYb
If only we could test these propositions somehow. Perhaps through some sort of nationwide opinion test, in which people could vote. On that front, Biden is also delusional, unsurprisingly:
JUST IN: President Biden says he could have and would have won the 2024 election, says Kamala Harris could have and would have won too.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025
Someone should tell him that Kamala did in fact run and did not win.
"I would have beaten Trump, could have beaten Trump, and I think that… pic.twitter.com/7oOWeSJ2hs
Based on the polling data, I categorize Biden's statement that he could have beaten Trump as "flat out bonkers."
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 8, 2025
Biden was well behind Trump when he dropped out. Biden never led in all of 2024. And no incumbent president who was anywhere near as unpopular as Biden has ever won. pic.twitter.com/lGk9h8pygU
Keep in mind, this is a man who the Wall Street Journal reported "wasn’t talking to his own pollsters" by the end of his sad, diminished, inept, corrupt journey, so he probably believes he would have won.