Biden leaving office with record-low approval rating — 61% say his presidency was a failure: poll 

President Biden is set to leave office with an approval rating matching his personal worst and with a majority of Americans viewing his presidency as a failure, according to a new poll. 

Only 36% of US adults approve of the overall job Biden, 82, has done in the White House, which equals his previous record-low, a CNN survey released Wednesday found.

Americans gave the outgoing commander in chief even lower marks on the way he’s handled immigration (31%), foreign affairs (32%) and the economy (33%). 

Less than half of people polled approved of Biden’s job handling environmental policy (44%), healthcare policy (43%) and protecting democracy (46%) – the president’s three best-performing issues. 

Biden’s favorability rating, which tracks Americans’ personal feelings toward the president, stunningly stands even lower than his job approval numbers. 

Only 33% of Americans view the outgoing president favorably, whereas 58% have an unfavorable view of Biden – one point off the record low he hit in June 2023, according to CNN. 

The vast majority of Americans, 61%, indicated that they view Biden’s four years in the Oval Office as a failure, with just 38% describing his presidency as a success. 

The number is the polar opposite of how Americans viewed the previous two Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, whose administrations were described as a success by 68% and 65% of Americans, respectively. 

Most Americans pin the blame on Biden directly for his failure in the White House, with 42% attributing his lack of success to “personal shortcomings. 

Only 19% attributed his White House flop to “external circumstances.” 

Under Biden, inflation soared, with food and gas prices at one point rising at rate not seen in more than four decades. 

Immigration also surged to record levels, with more than 8 million migrants entering the country – an estimated 60% doing so illegally – over the last four years. 

Biden also presided over several foreign policy blunders, including the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the stunning Chinese spy balloon incident of 2023.  

The survey comes a week after a separate Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans believe Biden will be remembered by history as a “poor” to “below average” commander-in-chief.

The Gallup survey released on Jan. 7 found that 37% expect Biden to be regarded as a “below average” president, while 17% indicated that the 82-year-old chief executive will be remembered as a “poor” leader of the US.

Only 6% of US adults responded that history would remember Biden as an “outstanding” president and 13% thought his legacy would be regarded as “above average.”

Another 26% said Biden will go down in history as just an “average” president.