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

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : 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 re-election 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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