How 'Trump amnesia' is shaping the 2024 presidential election

Four years ago was June 20, June 2020 , when we were locked down at the beginning of the COVID crisis.

Analysts say voters have simply forgotten what his presidency was actually like.

NBC News chief political analyst Chuck Todd , NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hilliard and Chuck Todd discuss the difference between 20/16/2020 and today .

Hilliard: The lack of fear could be a real stumbling block as Biden 's team tries to galvanized voters.

Katie Courteney : Why should we believe that this moment is different that Democrats are so much weaker today than they were two years ago or four years ago ? She says Donald Trump's rhetoric even his sort of swagger looks more like 2016 and the campaign you covered so closely, Katie , then he looks in 2020 .

But it's hard to imagine him dropping the grievance a trail, and this whole campaign, it seems to be firm about what they're doing to me is what they want to do to you.

Todd: "I'm skeptical character's going to work here. I would argue that maybe character has never mattered that much in presidential elections" Todd: When you have two candidates that have basically equal negatives, then you do need to make it about a forward-looking. You can't make it a personality contest. Going against character didn't work in 2016 .".