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.

The poll found that 39% of respondents listed behavior/leadership/personal characteristics as the thing they most associate with Trump’s presidency, 24% said economic policies/stimulus, 9% said immigration, 5% said foreign policy/conflicts, 5% said the Jan. 6 riot, and just 4% said the COVID-19 pandemic.

Of these, respondents were split down the middle as to whether these associations are positive or negative — 34% said that these associations are positive and negative. Another 26% said they were neither positive nor negative.

The results represent a public relations victory for Trump and a defeat of the Biden campaign, which has sought to make Trump’s handling of the Jan. 6 riot and COVID-19 pandemic a central point in the 2024 election.

Seth Masket, a professor of political science at the University of Denver, told the New York Times that the responses are odd, as the Jan. 6 riot and COVID-19 pandemic were the two most recent major developments of his administration, and two of the biggest news items of the past decade.

“In many ways, the most recent things about his presidency are not the things that people remember about him,” he said.

The responses, though split in whether they believed the associations were positive or negative, are very beneficial for Trump, Masket added.

“Trump almost gets a pass,” he said. “He just gets, ‘Well, the first three years were good and the fourth year wasn’t his fault.’”

One of Trump’s main strengths is the economy, which voters broadly associated as prosperous during the Trump administration and stagnant during the Biden administration.

“If people are mostly thinking about the economy, that seems to be helping Trump right now, and what the Biden team is going to try and do is keep raising other issues, keep raising, you know, Jan. 6 as an issue or chaos and COVID as an issue,” Masket said.

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Trump’s highest performance rating was on the economy, with nearly two-thirds of voters giving him a positive assessment.

Overall, voters had a much more positive association with the Trump years than the Biden years. The poll found that 42% of voters viewed the Trump years as mostly good for America, compared to 33% thinking they were mostly bad. In contrast, just 25% of voters view the Biden years as mostly good for America, compared to 46% who think they are mostly bad.