OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.
The polling continues to get worse for President Joe Biden the closer the country gets to deciding who they want to lead the country for the next four years.
According to a newly released survey from Rasmussen Reports, roughly 58 percent of respondents said that Biden has failed as president, including 40 percent who called his lackluster presidency a “complete failure,” the worst choice. Another 18 percent called it “mostly unsuccessful,” the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported in his “Washington Secrets” column on Thursday.
Most other respondents said they believe his presidency has been successful, though just 9 percent gave him a top grade of “complete success.”
Bedard adds: “Partisan politics in judging Biden play a huge role, though Democrats graded Biden harsher than Republicans graded former President Donald Trump. Among Democrats, 69% called Biden’s presidency a success. However, just 19% of Democrats told Rasmussen that Biden’s was a ‘complete success.’ Some 86% of Republicans gave Biden a thumbs down, while just 13% chose ‘mostly successful.’ And no Republican surveyed gave him a rating of ‘complete success.’ By comparison, voters, in general, approved of Trump. Rasmussen said 56% called Trump’s presidency a success, and 22% called it a “complete success.” And 42% called it unsuccessful.”
Some Democrats agreed; 28 percent called Trump’s presidency a success, including 11 percent who described it as a “complete success.”
Last week, a plurality of American voters said they believe that Trump’s four years in office were “better than expected,” whereas less than one in seven think the same of Biden’s term in office.
Forty percent of respondents to a nationwide poll by NBC News on Friday said that they had anticipated a “better” presidency under Trump, the New York Post reported.
31% said it was “about as expected,” and 29% said it was “worse.”
Just 14% of respondents thought Biden’s presidency was “better than expected,” while 42% thought it was “worse.”
Per the poll, 44% more people said it was “about as expected.”
Only 29% of nationally registered voters said that Trump’s presidency was “better than expected,” 27% said it was “worse,” and 43% said it was “about as expected” halfway through his term in office, according to NBC News.
Party-wise, 52% of Democrats said the Biden administration “met expectations,” 30% said it was “better than they expected,” and 18% said it had been “worse” in Friday’s poll. In contrast, 81% of Republican voters thought the Trump administration was “better than expected,” 6% thought it was “worse,” and 24% thought it was “about as expected.”
But when it came to independent voters, the Biden administration performed horribly; just 6% of them said the president’s term had been “better than they expected,” and a staggering 52% said it had been “worse.”
Of independent voters, 18% thought the Trump administration was “worse,” 43% thought it was “about as expected,” and 38% thought it was “better” than expected.
The poll also revealed that ahead of the 2024 presidential election, registered voters’ top concerns are the US border and the economy, with those who are critical of Biden pointing to worries about his age and mental capacity.
However, several Democrats expressed dissatisfaction to NBC News regarding the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict as well as some of his most notable legislative successes.
“Nothing has touched me when it comes to Biden at all that I can say, at least, ‘Yeah, there was a trickle-down,’” New Jersey Democrat Dionne Holt, who voted for Biden in 2020, told the outlet.
Though it has been more than three years since Trump left office, Holt insisted that he was not “good for the country” and her opinion of his presidency had not changed.
Republican voters, on the other hand, who nostalgically recalled Trump’s administration highlighted foreign policy stability and economic growth.
“I think the economy was growing and the country was secure. Well, we had the border, and we had no wars, we had no wars with the other foreign countries,” one Illinois Republican in his mid-50s told NBC.
