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Source: CSPAN
Breaking News
6/30/2021

CSPAN Poll of Presidential Leadership: Trump Beats Pierce, Buchanan and Andrew Johnson; Lincoln #1

The top 10:

  1. Lincoln
  2. Washington
  3. FDR
  4. Teddy Roosevelt
  5. Ike
  6. Truman
  7. Jefferson
  8. JFK
  9. Reagan
  10. Obama

The bottom 10 (1 is worst): 

  1. Buchanan
  2. Andrew Johnson
  3. Franklin Pierce
  4. Donald J. Trump
  5. William Henry Harrison
  6. John Tyler
  7. Millard Fillmore
  8. Warren G. Harding
  9. Herbert Hoover
  10. Zachary Taylor
Read entire article at CSPAN