It’s the one question that unites Americans when it comes to President Joe Biden.
Ask Democrats, Republicans or independents for their one-word summary of his legacy and they put aside their differences to answer almost unanimously: Nothing.
These are the extraordinary results of an exclusive survey conducted for DailyMail.com by JL Partners.
Some 1,009 registered voters were asked for their brief description of the legacy of Biden, who leaves the White House on Monday at the age of 82 after four turbulent years.
When the results are arranged in a word cloud, the most common answer stands out in the middle. The next most popular answers are economy, inflation and infrastructure, in a more encouraging nod to one of his most important pieces of legislation.
Yet the same word “nothing” stands out when responses are divided by political affiliation.
For Democrats, the memory is softened by other words like “good,” “stability” and “better.”
But as Biden prepares for life outside politics for the first time in half a century, and plans for a presidential library and other elements of his legacy, it suggests that the first version of history is at least unlikely to will be nice to him.
Ask voters their assessment of what Joe Biden has accomplished during his presidency and their one-word answer is scathing
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And there are worse things in other parts of the poll.
When voters were asked if they remember a single Biden performance, more than half said they could not. About 37 percent say they ‘strongly’ agree with the statement that they cannot name one.
Even the Democrats are having a hard time. More than a third say they cannot name any achievements.
The results echo an earlier poll that found voters viewed Biden as the least successful of the recent president.
James Johnson, co-founder of JL Partners, said it was diabolical
“As far as public opinion is concerned, you have to squint to see even the echoes of a legacy – and even then people are more likely to remember it negatively,” he said.
“Biden’s greatest achievements in office – such as legislation in Congress – are being pushed aside by the dominant view: that he was responsible for inflation, and that he was a mentally ill commander in chief.
“Maybe the history books will be different, but in the minds of the public there is no legacy.”

President Joe Biden will step down on Monday at the age of 82 after four years as president


When responses are broken down by Republicans and Democrats, the results show that even Biden’s allies are impressed with his years in office
Biden has spent the past week burnishing his legacy.
First came a big foreign policy speech in which he said his successor will inherit a nation that once again leads the world.
“My government leaves a very strong hand for the next government,” he said. “And we leave behind an America with more friends and stronger alliances, whose adversaries are weaker and under pressure.”
Domestically, he has won praise for leading the country out of the pandemic and its associated economic turmoil.
And some of his legislative achievements could have positive economic consequences well into the future.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 authorized $1.2 trillion in spending, money that will be spent on bridges, airports and railroads in the coming years.
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He also pushed for the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other things, boosted investments in green technology.
Democratic strategist Brad Bannon said it was clear voters now had little regard for Biden. But he believed history would favor the 46th president.
“I think he’ll be looked at as a prophet in the future because I think we’ll look back at the inflation reduction bill and his other environmental activism and say, ‘Boy, I wish we had paid more attention to what he did. he said.
He added that some of the blame lay with the White House, which had at times struggled to deliver a coherent message.
Biden himself claimed in a farewell message on Wednesday to have introduced policies whose consequences would be felt years into the future.
“You know, it’s going to take time to feel the full impact of everything we’ve done together,” he said. “But the seeds have been planted and they will grow and flourish for decades to come.”