Anti-gun-rights President Joe Biden will leave the White House Monday as a failure, according to the results of three polls, the latest one released Tuesday by USA Today/Suffolk University, showing a plurality (44%) of voters predicting he will be remembered unsympathetically.
And, living up once again to a reputation of media bias favoring Democrats, the USA Today report actually buried Biden’s unfavorable poll numbers well into the story about the survey, instead concentrating on returning President Donald Trump’s numbers.
But Fox News focused on Biden’s bad numbers right up front in its report, which comes on the heels of polling by Gallup and Rasmussen, which also suggest the Delaware Democrat can’t be gone too soon.
Amid all of this farewell fodder, the Second Amendment community appears poised to greet the second Trump presidency with excitement, especially since it signals an end to four years of anti-gun extremism led by Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their far-left administration. Gone will be Steve Dettelbach as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as will Attorney General Merrick Garland. Also gone should be the Biden-Harris White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a shadow mini-bureaucracy staffed by anti-gunners whose job—which never really seemed to mobilize—was to promote gun control to Congress and the establishment media, on the taxpayer’s dime.
The USA Today/Suffolk survey said 27 percent of respondents believe Biden will be remembered as a “fair” president, while only 21 percent think he was “good” and a paltry 5 percent consider him “great.”
Meanwhile, Gallup says 54 percent of its respondents say Biden was “below average” (17%) or “poor” (37%), while 26 percent say he will be remembered as “average.” Only 13 percent think he was “above average” and a miniscule 6 percent think he was “outstanding.”
The Rasmussen poll may have been the harshest for the aging Biden, who will be remembered by 48 percent of its respondents as “one of the worst presidents in American history.” Only 21 percent of likely voters think he has been one of America’s “best” presidents and 27 percent think he’s been “about average.”
According to Rasmussen, “Most voters say nothing President Joe Biden did during the past four years helped them.” Rubbing salt into this open wound, Rasmussen also revealed, “54% say that since Biden became president, he has not enacted any policy that made their life better.”
On Second Amendment issues, Biden has been unrelentingly bad where protection of the right to keep and bear arms is concerned, although the gun prohibition lobby has consistently hailed his push for restrictions.
Biden failed to achieve a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” something which he campaigned on back in 2020.
He was repeatedly criticized by the Second Amendment Foundation for admitting during a CNN Townhall broadcast that he not only wanted to ban semi-auto rifles, but also 9mm pistols.
His administration failed to reduce violent crime, a problem which was exposed last October by John Lott, founder and head of the Crime Prevention Research Center. On Biden’s watch, the FBI apparently undercounted a number of crimes, according to Lott’s research.
Another of Biden’s failures as a gun control advocate was the number of states that have adopted “Constitutional Carry” laws. During his tenure, the number of permitless carry states rose to 29, and as he leaves, the possibility of a national concealed carry reciprocity law being enacted grows. Trump has already promised to sign such a measure, and legislation has been introduced.
And among gun owners, Biden will be remembered as the congenital liar whose falsehoods about the Second Amendment were discredited by the Washington Post Fact Checker in June 2021. Seven months later, in February 2022, he was at it again, and Fox News reported it.
His biggest gun-related canard of all, of course, came with the pardon of his son, Hunter on federal gun charges. When Hunter was convicted earlier in 2024 of lying on a federal Form 4473 about his drug use, the president said during an interview he would not entertain a pardon—a vow which gun rights activists immediately dismissed as one more presidential prevarication—and then in December, he issued the pardon, as many anticipated. Even CNN has called him out, underscoring just how incredulous Biden has become on his way out the door.
And now, as he prepares to leave office, Joe Biden once again displays his penchant for deception by deceiving himself. He told USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page in a weekend interview he could have beaten Trump, had he stayed in the race.
Perhaps MSNBC said it best in the headline of an opinion piece by Opinion Editor Jarvis DeBerry: “Joe Biden says he could’ve beaten Donald Trump. That’s a delusional claim.”
Biden once described himself as “a Second Amendment guy.” He failed in that argument, too.
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About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
