By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-06 12:35:19 | Updated at 2024-12-22 16:35:32
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Voters deliver a devastating verdict on Joe Biden's time in office, branding him the worst president in recent memory in our exclusive poll.
That means they see him as less impressive than Jimmy Carter, voted out after a single term for presiding over double-digit inflation and a botched effort to rescue American hostages in Iran.
And it makes him worse in voters' minds than Richard Nixon, forced to resign in one of the most devastating scandals to ever hit the White House.
Yet when 1006 registered voters were asked to rank the last nine presidents in order, from best to worst, Biden came at the very bottom of the table.
Some 44 percent placed him as one of the worst two, while only 14 percent placed him in the top two, giving him a net score of 30 points underwater.
That was worse than Nixon, who came out with negative 25, and Donald Trump, with negative 15.
James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners which conducted the poll, called it a 'diabolical' result for Biden.
'There's always a recency bias and as Joe Biden is the incumbent, he starts off at a disadvantage there,' he said.
'But regardless of that, these numbers are worse than I expected.
Voters deliver a devastating verdict on Joe Biden 's time in office, branding him the worst president in recent memory in our exclusive poll.
'Voters have obviously looked at his age, general conduct in office, his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the situation at the southern border, and decided that, in their view, it qualifies him to be the worst president in modern history.
'And that's the position in which he leaves office. From the man who beat Trump to the man who let him back in, and who voters feel has been fundamentally a bad president.'
Biden, 82, leaves office on January 20 next year.
He abandoned his reelection run in July as he languished far behind Trump in polls and as his own allies demanded he step aside.
Senior Democrats blame him for handing the election to the Republican and not giving Vice President Kamala Harris enough to time to mount an effective campaign.
He attracted further ire during the past week when he announced he was issuing a broad pardon to his son Hunter, convicted of gun and tax charges, reversing promises that he would do no such thing.
Our poll found that more than half of American voters believed he was wrong to pardon his son. And it sent Biden's historically low approval rating dropping another four points, to 37 percent.
J.L. Partners polled 804 registered voters on December 2. The results carry a margin of error of plus/minus 3.5 percentage points
Richard Nixon bids farewell to White House staff in 1974. A break-in at the Watergate hotel by Republican operatives triggered a cascade of events that eventually led to his resignation
And he appeared to doze off during a meeting of African leaders this week while he was in Angola.
That all leaves him rock bottom in our table of presidents.
Ronald Reagan, remembered as the leader who won the Cold War and whose economic policies reduced inflation and created jobs, comes out top, followed by Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president.
Bill Clinton comes third, suggesting that Biden cannot blame his lowly position on anti-Democrat bias.
Nixon, who left office under the cloud of Watergate, is second to bottom. Yet 'Tricky Dicky' , who stepped down after it became known that he was involved in covering up a break-in by members of a group linked to his re-election campaign, as they sought to bug the offices of opponents, is still more popular than Biden.
