On Thursday's CNN News Central broadcast, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said voters are “looking at the short-term situation of their immediate lives, and they are looking forward to the second Trump administration.” “We're not looking at the long-term effects.” Inflation was caused by the pandemic “after Barack Obama gave Donald Trump a good economy.” “The next president will inherit a strong economy.”
“I think this is what happened. When we talk about it, like Bill Clinton talked about, it's the economy, stupid,” Meeks said. What we are talking about here is high inflation as a result of the pandemic that has occurred all over the world. There were situations where things became more expensive. This is what happened as a result of the pandemic, after President Barack Obama gave President Donald Trump an economic boom. And now things are getting worse. However, people still find the cost of rent, housing, and access to goods too high. And the vice president certainly talked about that, and most economists would say we're starting to move and we're at a certain point now, and whoever becomes the next president will carry over a good economy. They would say yes. That economy was created. Therefore, it appears that people are focused on the short-term situation of their immediate lives and not on the long-term effects of what a second Trump administration will specifically do to them. I think that was the focus. Because we know that: If Trump is anything like the first administration, his first administration, it's all about Donald Trump and not about anyone else. He is lining his own pockets and our national security is at risk. ”
Meeks added that the lesson from this election is that Democrats need to make sure the public knows what they are and have been doing.
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