As Biden leaves the White House, most Americans say history will view him as a failure
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Minority groups are fearful of Trump’s second term, according to exclusive polling from Prolific; while most Americans say Biden’s presidency will go down as a failure. President Joe Biden has officially passed the reigns to President Donald Trump — and he leaves office with a tarnished legacy, according to a recent poll.
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In Biden’s final months, he commuted thousands of sentences and issued dozens of pardons, most notably for his son, Hunter Biden, who faced jail time for gun and tax charges, a move that was slammed by critics on both sides of the political aisle. The poll of 1,938 U.S. adults, taken one week before the inauguration, found that 67 percent of respondents think that history will look back on Biden as a failure. Just 33 percent believe that Biden will be seen as a success.
Even among Democrats, only a small majority (58 percent) believe that Biden’s presidency will be seen as a success, while 42 percent think the opposite. “The data related to the American public’s view of Biden’s presidency paints a fairly clear view of both the polarization that defines American politics today, and also the changing public perception of Joe Biden,” said Andrew Gordon, researcher at Prolific.
“Even among Democrat voters, some perceive Biden’s presidency as a failure, potentially highlighting his failure to secure the Democrats in the White House for the next four years.”. Unsurprisingly, nine in 10 Republicans think that Biden’s presidency will go down in history as a failure, while eight in ten independent voters also think the same.
