Half of the registered voters say they think the story will be seen President TrumpDonald TrumpPowell says White House aides will not let her help Judge Trump launch Republican lawsuit to close Georgia polls after business hours Bipartisan, bicameral group urges Trump to sign relief package COVID-19 MORE as “failed” president, according to a poll published Thursday in USA Today / Suffolk University.
When asked how they believe history will assess Trump’s tenure, just over 50% of respondents say he will be considered a “failed” president. About 30% say he will be judged as a “good” or “great” president and 16% say he will be considered a “just” president. Just over 4 percent of respondents are undecided.
The results fall sharply along the party line, with 87 percent of Democrats saying he will be judged as a “failed” president and 67 percent of Republicans who will consider him to be “good” or “great.”
“The last four years have lacked compassion and empathy, they have lacked nothing more than to advance the personal interests of President Trump, his friends and allies and family,” voted Babette Salus, 60, a retired lawyer. of Springfield, Illinois, for President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenJudge launches Republican Party lawsuit to close Georgia polls after business hours The Fauci Serenade with first-time attendees Joe Biden may be president of middle-class workers, he told USA Today as part of the survey. “There have probably been worse presidents, [but] I’m not sure there’s ever been worse in my life. ”
“I’ll tell you what, 50 years later, Trump will be considered much better than he is today,” added David Cheff, 73, a Trump voter in Jacksonville, Florida.
The results of the poll stand in stark contrast to the same poll conducted in the waning days of former President Obama’s second term. At the time, 50% said he would be judged as “good” or “great” and 23% said he would be considered a “failed” president.
The poll statement comes as Trump continues to bust the results of last month’s election, even though the Electoral College earlier this month claimed Biden’s victory. The president and his allies have launched a legal campaign to try to overturn the election, claiming widespread fraud cost him a second term, although virtually all of his lawsuits have been dismissed for lack of evidence or permanence.
About 70% of Americans in the new poll said Trump should grant the race to Biden, something he has so far refused to do, while 26% said no. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans said they should not accept.
The USA Today / Suffolk University poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters from December 16 to 20 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.