Poll shows Jan. 6 and COVID large­ly absent from pop­u­lar per­cep­tion of Trump

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Poll shows Jan. 6 and COVID largely absent from popular perception of Trump

A new poll found that the most chaot­ic parts of Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion have been large­ly for­got­ten.
Despite the glob­al and domes­tic upheaval brought on by the Jan. 6 riot at the Capi­tol and the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, vot­ers said they were some of the least mem­o­rable aspects of Trump’s time in office.
Sur­vey­ing 1,000 vot­ers nation­wide, a New York Times/Siena Col­lege sur­vey asked vot­ers what they asso­ci­at­ed most with Trump’s pres­i­den­cy. A major­i­ty of vot­ers asso­ci­at­ed his behav­ior, the econ­o­my, and immi­gra­tion with his pres­i­den­cy, while less than 10% pri­mar­i­ly asso­ci­at­ed it with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and the Jan. 6 riot.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump sits at his desk after a meet­ing with Intel CEO Bri­an Krzanich in the Oval Office of the White House in Wash­ing­ton, Feb. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Mar­tinez Mon­si­vais)

The poll found that 39% of respon­dents list­ed …