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Sargent: The new Cook Report poll shows Harris and Trump *even* on inflation!
Greg Sargent
On the stunning new jobs report, I'm not sure people appreciate how big it is that the Harris campaign has fought back to something close to parity on the economy. The new Cook Report poll shows Harris and Trump *even* on inflation!
New piece from me:
2:33 PM · Oct 4, 2024
On the stunning new jobs report, I'm not sure people appreciate how big it is that the Harris campaign has fought back to something close to parity on the economy. The new Cook Report poll shows Harris and Trump *even* on inflation!
New piece from me:
2:33 PM · Oct 4, 2024
Greg Sargent (archive) - Trump’s Midnight Rants Face Rude Awakening: Stunning New Jobs Report
Harris has been escaping Biden’s shadow and catching Trump on economic trust—and the huge September jobs gains can only help.
RECESSION? NOT!
Greg Sargent
October 4, 2024
As the clock crept toward midnight on Thursday evening, Donald Trump unleashed two all-caps social media missives that neatly captured the sophistication of his arguments on the economy. One vomited forth a bunch of scattershot promises to end taxes on untold numbers of people while falsely pushing the idea that Trump delivered the largest tax cut in U.S. history. The other raged that Kamala Harris will end “FRACKING,” featuring a video depicting her as a radical socialist who will destroy American energy production, and concluding: “Only President Trump will bring back Trump’s strong economy.”
In a case of spectacular bad timing, only eight hours later, we learned that in September, the economy added a stunning 254,000 new jobs, far surpassing expectations.
This is the last jobs report before the early voting really gets underway. While there will be one more on Friday, November 1, it will come too late to have any real political effect. By contrast, the surprising nature of today’s report will prompt many days of positive headlines about jobs—including from local news outlets, which independents tend to read—that will keep on mitigating Harris’s leading vulnerability against Trump: economic approval numbers.
I’m not sure people appreciate the magnitude of one of Harris’s biggest achievements in this campaign: fighting Trump to a near-draw on the economy. There is a telling number buried in a new Cook Political Report poll of the seven key battleground states: Harris is now dead even with Trump on which candidate likely voters trust on “getting inflation under control.” In August, Cook’s polling found Trump leading by six points on this question; now each candidate has 47 percent.
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Harris has been escaping Biden’s shadow and catching Trump on economic trust—and the huge September jobs gains can only help.
RECESSION? NOT!
Greg Sargent
October 4, 2024
As the clock crept toward midnight on Thursday evening, Donald Trump unleashed two all-caps social media missives that neatly captured the sophistication of his arguments on the economy. One vomited forth a bunch of scattershot promises to end taxes on untold numbers of people while falsely pushing the idea that Trump delivered the largest tax cut in U.S. history. The other raged that Kamala Harris will end “FRACKING,” featuring a video depicting her as a radical socialist who will destroy American energy production, and concluding: “Only President Trump will bring back Trump’s strong economy.”
In a case of spectacular bad timing, only eight hours later, we learned that in September, the economy added a stunning 254,000 new jobs, far surpassing expectations.
This is the last jobs report before the early voting really gets underway. While there will be one more on Friday, November 1, it will come too late to have any real political effect. By contrast, the surprising nature of today’s report will prompt many days of positive headlines about jobs—including from local news outlets, which independents tend to read—that will keep on mitigating Harris’s leading vulnerability against Trump: economic approval numbers.
I’m not sure people appreciate the magnitude of one of Harris’s biggest achievements in this campaign: fighting Trump to a near-draw on the economy. There is a telling number buried in a new Cook Political Report poll of the seven key battleground states: Harris is now dead even with Trump on which candidate likely voters trust on “getting inflation under control.” In August, Cook’s polling found Trump leading by six points on this question; now each candidate has 47 percent.
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The great job #'s were icing on the cake of having the port strike resolved quickly!
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