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A recent study by presidential researchers and historians ranked Joe Biden as the fourteenth best president in American history. Yes, you read that correctly – the fourteenth.
Biden's presidency has been marked by numerous crises, from the border crisis to the disaster of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, not to mention ongoing economic challenges.
Biden has consistently been ranked as having one of the lowest approval ratings in the country's history.
However, the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project expert poll, developed by the American Political Science Association, somehow ranked the current president in the top third of the list of best presidents. He is basically in a relationship with the founding father and second president of America, John Adams.
Biden leads Woodrow Wilson (15), Ronald Reagan (16), and Ulysses S. Grant (17).
President Donald Trump ranked last in the poll at 45th.
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It doesn't take long to realize that the American Political Science Association's list of the best presidents is a complete joke.
There's not much to dispute at the top, as Abraham Lincoln is ranked as the nation's highest-ranking president. But George Washington, the first President of the United States, a military general, and one of the Founding Fathers, was known for his leadership during the American Revolution and his role in construction The United States fell to third place in the poll.
In second place now is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the progressive standard-bearer.
Other curious notes include President Jimmy Carter in a rather impressive upper half display (22). Carter is often viewed as one of the worst presidents in our nation's history, consistently ranking last in polls alongside James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.
In this poll, Buchanan and Johnson rank higher than Trump at 44 and 43, respectively. Buchanan slowly marched the country toward the Civil War through which Lincoln was to lead America. Johnson was the first president to be impeached.
Barack Obama has been ranked as the seventh best president in American history.
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Trump ranked worst after just one year of his presidency
This poll of the best presidents, broken down by respondents' ideology, makes an even more absurd claim when it comes to Biden.
Democrats rank him 13th, according to the American Political Science Association's results. Republicans and conservatives separately rank him at 30. It seems unlikely that conservatives will or can name 15 other presidents worse than Biden.
It is also important to note that these same “experts” will help write future history books.
The poll appears to be a desperate attempt to make Biden more acceptable to the American people before the 2024 presidential election.
While they rate Biden as much better than Trump, the incumbent president consistently ranks well below his predecessor in approval rating and loses in most 2024 election polls.
In fact, a large portion of Democrats themselves do not believe that Biden should remain in the race. However, we're supposed to believe he's in the top 15 players in American history.
The same American Political Science Association poll of experts in 2018 ranked President Trump as the worst in history even though he had only been in the White House for one full year.
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