Joe Biden received a 30 percent favorable rating in a /SSRS survey of 2,480 U.S. adults, placing him well behind Barack Obama and behind George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The survey also found Donald Trump at 34 percent favorable.
Obama led the group at 57 percent, while Bush registered 42 percent and Clinton 38 percent. The poll gives a current snapshot of how respondents ranked living U.S. presidents, with Biden near the bottom of the group measured.
Barack Obama Leads The Field
The same survey found Obama was the president respondents admired most, at 30 percent. Trump drew 19 percent on that question, while Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan each received 9 percent and John F. Kennedy received 6 percent.
Obama's standing was not limited to Democrats. He drew 96 percent favorability among Democrats and 19 percent among Republicans, a split that shows support reaching beyond his own party even as Biden's numbers lagged behind other recent presidents.
Joe Biden And Donald Trump
The poll adds a fresh comparison point for Biden against Trump, Bush and Clinton. Biden's 30 percent rating sits below Trump's 34 percent and far under Obama's 57 percent, leaving him closer to the low end of the field than to the top.
For readers tracking public standing among living presidents, the numbers point in one direction: Obama remains the clear outlier, and Biden does not match the level of favorability that Bush or Clinton also posted in the same survey.
/SSRS survey
The source does not explain what specific factors are driving Joe Biden's 30 percent favorable rating. What it does show is that, in a sample of 2,480 U.S. adults, Biden trails every other living president named in the survey except Trump on the favorability question.
