The three words Biden will be remembered by are ‘old’, ‘falling’ and ‘inflation’, according to a damning poll
Ask voters for their one-word description of what they will remember about Joe Biden’s presidency and the results are damning: old, inflationary, declining.
Still, Biden will take the stage in Washington on Tuesday to try to cement his legacy as a leader who rebuilt the economy after the pandemic
The White House labels the event as “comments on his middle-out, bottom-up economic playbook at the Brookings Institution.”
But our latest survey of voter attitudes with JL Partners shows that the 82-year-old will be remembered mostly for crippling inflation and his own personal weaknesses, even by his supporters.
When the results are displayed in a word cloud, the dominant word in the center is: Old.
It is surrounded by other unflattering terms, including confused, memory and praise.
Positive terms are compassion, caring and helping.
James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, said voters had delivered a damning overall verdict.
Voters were asked to describe their top memories of President Joe Biden’s term in office
Biden will deliver a speech on Tuesday about “his middle-out, bottom-up economic playbook.” But as he burnishes his legacy, voters see a series of failures
“There is no Biden legacy. That is the opinion of the public,” he said.
“They feel like he’s presiding over a bad economy, skyrocketing prices and a broken southern border.
Worse, they do not even feel that he is fully aware of the consequences of his own premiership, while deep-seated concerns about his age and health prevail among them.
‘Ask voters in focus groups what Biden’s legacy is and they don’t point to his successes – instead there is laughter and ridicule.’
Biden’s age caught up with him during the election campaign. He was forced to end his re-election bid as allies lined up to tell him to make way for someone with a better chance of beating Donald Trump.
He will leave office on January 20.
In the meantime, he and his assistants are trying to burnish his successes and cement a legacy.
He will step down with a string of legislative achievements under his belt and will leave behind a healthy economy after weathering the end of the pandemic.
When voters were asked what was the best thing about his presidency, about 19 percent cited his insulin price cap, which lowered drug prices for diabetics.
Another 17 percent talked about COVID stimulus checks, which put money in Americans’ pockets to keep the economy going during the pandemic.
But that answer matched the number of people who said they were “unsure” when asked to list three achievements.
The top answers when asked about the worst things about his presidency were: inflation, the state of the southern border and the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Overall, voters said they considered Biden the worst president in recent history. They ranked him below even Richard Nixon, who was forced out of office before being impeached during the Watergate crisis after it emerged that he was trying to cover up dirty tricks used by his supporters in his re-election campaign.
The scandal went so deep that it poisoned the way voters viewed politicians for a generation.
And Biden’s personal approval ratings fell further last weekend after he went back on his promises and pardoned his son Hunter.
More than half of voters (surveyed separately after the pardon was announced) said Biden was wrong when he made that decision.
As a result, Biden’s historically low approval rating fell another four points, to 37 percent, according to the survey of 804 registered voters.