The heart of the Biden presidential campaign’s message is that democracy is at stake in 2024 presidential election.

But last week’s Quinnipiac polling showed Americans rank the economy (28 percent) as their top concern, even as stocks, employment and wages all perform strongly. Preserving democracy comes in second at 21 percent.

Only 10 percent of Trump-backing Republicans think eroding democracy is a top concern. The economy (46 percent) and immigration (30 percent) are more important issues to Trump loyalists.

Preserving Democracy is the number one concern for Democrats, at 37 percent. Also, people over the age of 65 are concerned with the future of American democracy (35 percent). College educated people can see the Trump threat to democracy (31 percent), but non-college educated (17 percent) and independent voters (16 percent) are less worried.

The point here is that Trump’s base — and beyond to some swing voters and young voters — remain indifferent to Biden’s message that political and economic stability are being put at risk by threats to democracy.

That is obvious when polls show Trump Republicans agree — despite the lack of any evidence - that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump is labeling Biden as a “serious threat to democracy" by falsely claiming that the Justice Department........

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