Harris won't be relieved from the burden of Biden's economy
Kamala Harris seems to have realized she can't do it. Downplaying the burden of the Biden-Harris administration's economic performance Rather, we must protect it.
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash yesterday, Harris reviewed her administration's jobs record, legislative accomplishments and He even took credit for the decline in inflation.Of course, no one asked what the administration had done to curb inflation.
The burden of the Biden-Harris record is heavy. Fifty-two percent of Americans said they were dissatisfied with Biden's job performance. On economic issues, the latest YouGov poll shows 40% strongly disapprove. economistOnly 39 percent of registered voters are in favor, and only 19 percent strongly approve.
52% of registered voters The economy is worsening Only 21% say things are getting better, 43% say things are worse than they were a year ago, and only 16% say things are better.
Harris has been one of the administration's strongest supporters of economic policies, even going so far as to use the term “Bidenomics” as a positive description. “Bidenomics is working” “And of course, she cast the crucial tie-breaking votes on each of the defining pieces of legislation that built the Biden-Harris economy,” Harris said in speeches across the country.
Harris' Deception Campaign
Harris avoided the term “Bidenomics” in a Thursday night interview with CNN, but did her best to defend the administration's policies. But her claims were largely false. She again He misleadingly claimed the economy had added 800,000 manufacturing jobs.But that claim is further cast into doubt after the Bureau of Labor Statistics said earlier this month that it could cut its manufacturing employment estimate by nearly 100,000 jobs.
She repeated again The Biden-Harris Administration's “Original Sin”The lie that the economy would be broken by the time he took office in 2021. Biden began promoting this lie during the 2020 campaign, and complicit, incompetent establishment media figures fueled it. For example, then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo falsely claimed the U.S. economy was worse than Germany's because Cuomo didn't understand or would not understand the official government numbers.
But let’s not attack Mr. Cuomo. MSNBC's Brian WilliamsThe former MSNBC anchor also lied about the state of the economy in 2020, but whether that was out of deliberate deception, reckless ignorance, or stubborn incompetence is anyone's guess. If you have the patience, you can probably read the entirety of this edition. Breitbart Business Digest We point out examples of TV anchors, newspaper reporters, and pundits spreading lies about the state of the economy in 2020.
Unfortunately, media complicity in this particular lie is not just part of the historical record, it is an ongoing scandal for the American press. In an interview last night, CNN's Dana Bash did not dispute Harris's false portrayal of the economy.In newspapers and other reports, The New York Times and The Washington Post They also failed to notice Harris' lie — an embarrassing oversight for a media outlet seemingly obsessed with fact-checking everything Trump and J.D. Vance say in real time.
The road to the White House may be paved with lies
I wish I had more confidence that campaigns based on bullshit would fail, but history is full of such examples. Deception trumps abilityOn the economy, Trump still leads Harris in most polls, but his lead is shrinking. A Reuters poll conducted Aug. 23-25 gave Trump just a three-point lead on the economy, down from 11 points a month ago.
According to the results of a University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey released Friday, An explosion of hope among Democrats Optimism is waning among Republicans. Among Democrats, the future expectations index jumped from 81.7 in July to 94.0 in August. Among Republicans, it fell from 59.2 to 56.3.
“Democrats saw a significant 10% increase in sentiment, while Republicans saw a similar drop. These patterns are the result of a major shift in election expectations this month as Harris emerged as the Democratic presidential nominee. In July, 51% of consumers expected Trump to win the election, compared with 37% for Biden. In August, Election predictions reversed“36% predicted a Trump victory compared to 54% for Harris,” poll director Joan Hsu said in a statement.
