As Biden wraps up half-century political career, his failure to turn page on Trump weighs on president

President Biden's half-century governmental vocation comes to a adjacent connected Monday, arsenic President-elect Trump is inaugurated and succeeds Biden successful the White House.

While the longtime Democratic legislator from Delaware, two-term vice president and one-term president tin constituent to a plethora of legislative victories and different achievements during his 4 years successful the White House, Biden leaves bureau arsenic 1 of the astir unpopular presidents successful the nation's history.

And Biden, who successfully defeated Trump successful the 2020 predetermination arsenic helium pledged to crook a leafage connected his predecessor, is facing a bequest tarnished by his inability to forestall Trump from returning to the presidency.

Biden, successful an unfastened missive to the American radical connected Wednesday, appeared to admit that helium wasn't capable to travel done connected the integral pledge from his 2020 campaign.

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President Joe Biden speaks astir overseas argumentation during a code astatine the State Department successful Washington, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

"I ran for president due to the fact that I believed that the psyche of America was astatine stake. The precise quality of who we are was astatine stake," Biden wrote. 

But helium lamented "that’s inactive the case."

"President Biden ran connected and was elected connected a level of a instrumentality to normalcy successful 2020. And portion voters look to person wanted that successful principle, past volition retrieve Biden arsenic having been incapable to present connected his promise," seasoned governmental idiosyncratic Wayne Lesperance, the president of New England College, told Fox News.

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Biden, successful a farewell code to the federation this past week, aimed to cement his bequest arsenic a president who pushed to stabilize authorities astatine location portion bolstering America's enactment abroad, and arsenic a person who steered the federation retired of the COVID-19 pandemic, made historical investments successful infrastructure and cleanable energy, pumped up the system and made historical gains successful occupation creation, and lowered medicine cause prices for millions of American.

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House arsenic helium gives his farewell code Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, successful Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

But helium besides utilized his code "to pass the country" that "an oligarchy is taking signifier successful America of utmost wealth, powerfulness and power that virtually threatens our full democracy. Our basal rights, freedoms, and a just changeable for everyone to get ahead."

Biden ends his azygous word successful the White House with support ratings that stay good underwater.

He stood astatine 42% support and 57% disapproval successful the latest Fox News nationalist poll, which was conducted Jan. 10-13 and released connected Thursday.

Just 36% of Americans approved of the occupation Biden has been doing successful the White House, according to the latest CNN poll, which matched the president's erstwhile debased people successful the cablegram quality network's polling during Biden's White House tenure.

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And Biden's support standing stood astatine 43% – somewhat higher but inactive successful antagonistic territory – successful nationalist polls by USA Today/Suffolk University and Marist College. All of the polls were conducted successful aboriginal and mid-January.

Biden’s support standing hovered successful the debased to mid 50s during his archetypal six months successful the White House. However, the president’s numbers started sagging successful August 2021 in the aftermath of Biden's much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan, and pursuing a surge successful COVID-19 cases that summertime that was chiefly among unvaccinated people.

The plunge successful the president’s support standing was besides fueled by soaring ostentation – which started spiking successful the summertime of 2021 and remains to day a large pocketbook interest with Americans – and the surge of migrants trying to transverse into the U.S. on the southern border.

Biden's support ratings slipped underwater successful the autumn of 2021 and ne'er reemerged into affirmative territory.

The latest polls besides bespeak that galore Americans presumption Biden's presidency arsenic a failure.

US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell code to the federation from the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected January 15, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ((Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Sixty-one percent of adults nationwide questioned successful the CNN survey said they spot Biden’s presidency wide arsenic a failure, with 38% viewing it arsenic a success. 

According to the USA Today/Suffolk University survey, 44% of registered voters said past volition measure Biden arsenic a failed president, with 27% saying helium volition beryllium judged arsenic a just president. Twenty-one percent of those questioned said past volition presumption Biden arsenic a bully president, with lone 5% saying helium volition beryllium seen arsenic a large president.

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Just implicit a 3rd of adults nationwide questioned successful the Marist canvass said Biden volition beryllium remembered arsenic 1 of the worst presidents successful American history, with 19% saying helium volition beryllium considered a below-average president.

Twenty-eight percent of participants offered that Biden's bequest volition beryllium considered average, with 19% saying helium would beryllium regarded arsenic supra mean oregon 1 of the champion presidents successful the nation's history.

Biden, successful 1 of his past interviews successful office, told MSNBC successful an acknowledgment of regret that "ironically, I astir spent excessively overmuch clip connected the policy, not capable clip connected the politics."

Also weighing connected Biden's bequest - his ill-fated re-election run.

In April 2023, the then-80-year aged Biden announced his re-election bid. Fourteen months later, Biden was losing crushed to Trump successful 2024 predetermination polling erstwhile helium suffered a disastrous statement show against the erstwhile president, which reignited heavy concerns among voters implicit his carnal and cognitive quality to grip different 4 years successful the White House.

President Joe Biden (right) and Republican statesmanlike nominee, erstwhile President Donald Trump, enactment successful their 1 and lone statesmanlike debate, astatine the CNN Studios connected June 27, 2024 successful Atlanta, Georgia. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Less than a period later, pursuing an outcry from chap Democrats, Biden announced helium was ending his run and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to service arsenic the party's 2024 standard-bearer.

Two and a fractional months aft Trump's convincing triumph implicit Harris, Biden is inactive facing plentifulness of blasted for the Democrats' electoral setbacks successful November.

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville told Fox News that "the Joe Biden communicative is 1 of the large tragedies of American politics. I truly mean that. He should beryllium having a glorious, good deserved, highly acclaimed retirement. And he’s not."

And Carville, a governmental mastermind down erstwhile President Bill Clinton's historical 1992 White House victory, argued that "it’s hard to blasted anybody but him." 

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But Biden’s friends and supporters consciousness that the antagonistic views of the soon-to-be erstwhile president volition displacement implicit time.

"Biden, due to the fact that of immoderate of the authorities that helium was capable to musculus through, is going to look beauteous good," John MacNeil, a longtime Democratic consultant, Biden supporter, told Fox News. "The fruits of immoderate of what Biden accomplished are lone going to go disposable implicit the adjacent fewer years."

But MacNeil, a founding manager of Unite the Country, the ace PAC that boosted the then-former vice president done the 2020 Democratic primaries, besides acknowledged that Biden whitethorn beryllium "seen arsenic conscionable a hiccup betwixt Trump 1 and Trump two. That is thing that historians volition speech about."