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When Bill Clinton and Barack Obama joined Joe Biden on stage in New York last week they agreed that voters had a clear decision to make in November's election.
'I think our democracy is at stake,' said Biden at the fundraising event. 'Not a joke. I think democracy is literally at stake.'
But an exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll shows that his campaign still has work to do if that is going to be a winning message.
Voters are more likely to say they remember a better economy during Donald Trump's four years in office than the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol or four years of political drama.
Of 1005 likely voters, some 30 percent said they thought first of 'a better economic situation'. In contrast, 20 percent said their main memory was Jan. 6.
J.L. Partners asked 1005 likely voters for their main memories of the Trump administration
A strong economy was the top response, cited by 30 percent of respondents, beating out the Jan. 6 attack, the pandemic response and other examples of chaos under Donald Trump
Democratic strategists said there was still seven months until the election and there was plenty of time for the Biden campaign to sharpen its messaging and refocus perceptions.
And a Biden campaign insider said a plurality of voters seemed to remember negative things about Trump's time in office, even if a healthy economy came top.
Even so the results also show that the upheaval of street protests and Trump's erratic handling of the coronavirus pandemic have faded from immediate memory.
Overall, 45 percent of respondents say their life was better under Trump, compared with 38 percent under Biden.
Although the numbers split along partisan political lines, they are reflected among independents, who may include the swing votes that will determine the outcome of the election.
The result is that Trump holds a four-point lead over Biden when respondents were asked who they would vote for if the election were tomorrow.
James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners which conducted the poll, said Trump was winning the battle of memory.
With voters' present worries about economic pressures it was perhaps not surprising that they underestimate the political drama of the Trump years and focus on a time before the pandemic when they had money to spend.
Voters have a rosy view of life under Trump. In our survey, some 45 percent said life was better then than under the Biden administration now
When Biden took the stage with former Presidents Barack Obama (left) and Bill Clinton (right) they issued a joint declaration that democracy was at
