Biden's legacy: Far-reaching accomplishments that didn't translate into political support

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Yet voters viewed him as a placeholder, and he could never transcend the text of his speeches to visually "embody the spirit of the nation with a sense of verve, energy and optimism."As his reelection campaign entered its final days, Biden was still trying to prove himself and rally voters around fears that Trump would doom American democracy.
51% : There was also the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided incentives to shift away from fossil fuels and enabled Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
39% : He won the nomination and then did something rare in American politics: He defeated an incumbent president, Trump, who had been a catalyst for a seething sense of polarization.
38% : Then Trump survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and, as if on cue, pumped his fist in strength.
36% : Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 worsened inflation as Trump and other Republicans questioned the value of military aid to the Ukrainians.
27% : He lost the confidence of supporters in the 90-minute debate with Trump, even if pride initially prompted him to override the fears of lawmakers, party elders and donors who were nudging him to drop out.
26% : Douglas Brinkley, a historian at Rice University, said Biden arrived as a reprieve for a nation exhausted by Trump and the pandemic.
22% : When the 81-year-old Democratic president showed his age in a disastrous debate against Trump in June, he lost the benefit of the doubt and on Sunday withdrew as his party's nominee.
14% : David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Obama, said history would treat Biden kinder than voters had, not just because of his legislative achievements but because he defeated Trump.

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