A year ago Our survey of presidential experts ranking Joe Biden 14th among the presidents. Ahead of such consequential chief executives as Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. At the time, many expressed surprise. If not skepticism, that the third edition of our Presidential Greatness Project had put Biden in the top third of the nation’s presidents.
True, President Biden helped lead
The nation out of the COVID-19 pandemic while presiding over a series of legislative achievements, and many gave him credit for restoring important list to data norms to the Oval Office after the tumultuous term of Donald Trump, whom the experts ranked last. But the story was unfinished, and the verdict was preliminary.
In the months following the release of our survey
Voters and experts alike learned much more about Biden’s decline with age, laid bare especially by his disastrous debate performance against Trump in June. Weeks later, Biden dropped out of the race, handing the reins to Vice President Kamala hybrid cloud database solutions Harris, who would go on to be decisively defeated by Trump.
Nine new wax figures of American presidents are seen at Madame Tussauds in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The attraction plans to open a new gallery featuring all 44 American president figures in the fall of 2010. Back row left to right are Andrew Jackson, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, and Chester Alan Arthur. Front row are John Quincy Adams, left, and Andrew Johnson. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Opinion: We know how voters feel about Trump and Biden
But how do the experts rank their presidencies? Even as Biden’s administration shifted its focus to his legacy in the months since he dropped out of review business the race, his presidency grew more fraught.