According to a new poll, President Joe Biden is set to leave the White House as the worst-rated U.S. president in modern history. Americans registered to vote were asked to rank the last nine presidents of the United States, with President Biden coming dead last, behind Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Jimmy Carter.
A total of 44 percent of respondents had a negative view of Biden, placing him in the bottom two rankings, with just 14 percent putting him in the top two rankings. President-elect Donald J. Trump, in contrast, had 30 percent of respondents placing him in the top two rankings, ahead of President Bill Clinton.
J.L. Partners conducted the poll, and its cofounder, James Johnson, described the results as “worse than I expected.”
“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,” he said.
Biden’s popularity has dipped since he dropped out of the presidential race earlier this year following a disastrous debate with President Trump.
His recent announcement to give a sweeping, decade-spanning pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, has also been unpopular with many. Biden had previously promised that he would not pardon Hunter, and Biden’s allies had used this as an example of the president’s supposed integrity.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi, who is involved in one of Hunter’s cases, criticized the pardon, claiming it was partially unconstitutional and an attempt to “rewrite history.”