A new Gallup poll suggests that Americans believe Joe Biden’s presidency will go down as one of the worst in modern history.
The poll, taken in December, asked respondents on how they believed each president since the 1960s would “go down in history”, ranking their performance from “outstanding” to “poor”.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, John F. Kennedy topped the charts with a net positive rating of +68. He was followed by Ronald Reagan (+38) and Barack Obama (+21).
Biden’s tenure had an average rating of -35, with more than a third (37%) believing his tenure would go down as “poor”. Just over a quarter (26%) believed history would deem his presidency as “average”, while less than one-fifth (19%) thought it would be “above average” or “outstanding.”
And remember, that’s with the entirety of the mainstream media in the tank for him. Trump faced an unprecedented onslaught, and was still 31 points more favorable than Biden.
Republicans were overwhelmingly critical of the President, but he did not muster much support from independent or Democrat voters either. More than half (51%) of independents thought his tenure was “below average” or worse, while only 44% had a positive view of the past four years.
Only Richard Nixon, the only U.S. President to have ever resigned from office, was deemed to have a worse standing among respondents.
Meanwhile, in the FiveThirtyEight poll Trump has a net positive rating for the first time ever – and given how biased the polls are, it’s likely even higher than it looks.
Many on social media were unsurprised by the results.
Other commentors ranked him behind Nixon.
