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WASHINGTON President Trumps economic message in the presidential campaign has pivoted from success story to comeback pitch.
Facing a coronavirus emergency that crippled a vibrant economy and robbed Mr. Trumps most potent selling point for a second term, he and his advisers see an opening for a different kind of argument. We built the greatest economy in the world. Ill do it a second time, Mr. Trump said during a recent press briefing.
The strategy presents risks, not least of which is Mr. Trumps desire to reopen the economy as soon as possible, which could clash with advice from health experts and the views of state and local leaders who will actually decide when to ease restrictions. He must convince voters felled by job and income losses that he is better able to revive the economy than former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who is pitching himself as a more stable fiscal steward.
More than 16 million Americans filed jobless claims in the past three weeks. A Wall Street Journal survey of economists showed they expect the unemployment rate will hit 13% in June and still be at 10% in December. The nation began the year with an unemployment rate at 3.6%.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/trump-campaign-shifts-economic-message-on-the-fly/ar-BB12toNf?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=hplocalnews
You didn't do shit blubber boy. You simply rode the momentum that started in 2009.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)economic slow down has just begun. There are just so many total items sold and as the disposable income dries up,the whole supply change comes to a halt.
We are at the end of the beginning and the end is nowhere in site.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Shifty shifts from Don the Con.
To be realistic now, (which he isn't about) it would be something like, "let's get the country back to something that resembles what it was before I came in, (TO POWER) and really, bigly messed just about everything I could up and won't stop doing until its all mine because I get a rush from this stuff and why can't I be like those leaders I envy so much? Vote for ME, ME, ME! It's all about me, you know."
You know, typical dictator jargon.
GOP: All bow before the Dear Leader who will take us to the promised land of an enforced relevance where we get to be rather high on the totalitarian pole and less subject to putative wrath when he gets done with overthrowing the pesky democracy thing. Amen!
And now for VP Pence and his Juggling Theocratic Dance Troupe! [Mother, cue the music and get Trump's Amazing Oligarch Magic Act ready]
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)By the writers. According to whom?
Markets roaring because of cheap money, suppressed wages, excessive D/E ratios, wild speculation on unprofitable companies, and the author uses the word vibrant.
Hey, Alex & Kathy! You don't work for DOLTUS. The flowery language is both unnecessary & wrong.
On Edit: You 2 should also have pointed out that this country had the greatest economy in the world, 130 years before this blowhard was even elected.
As the OP said, he built nothing!
EarlG
(21,965 posts)and while driving too fast and texting, I lost concentration, crashed into a tree, and killed several of the passengers. But vote for me and I promise Ill fix that car and well be out on the road again before you know it.
Uh, no thanks.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Bravo.
sinkingfeeling
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