So far, the Biden team has been more sure-footed attacking Donald Trump’s threat to democracy than it has been defending Biden’s incumbency.
By virtually any measure save food prices, Biden is presiding over a strong economy — stronger, by far, than most peer countries.
As Noah Smith has noted, the Biden economy looks far better than Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America”: Unemployment is lower, inflation is lower, interest rates are lower, stock market returns are better.
The most recent Times/Siena poll found that 74 percent of registered voters rated the economy either “poor” or “fair.” By a 15-point margin, voters said Trump’s policies helped them personally.
In November of 2020, unemployment was 6.7 percent and Trump had just turned a White House celebration into a superspreader event.
Persons:
Joe Biden, you’re, he’s, Here’s, that’s, Biden, Donald Trump’s, Noah Smith, Ronald Reagan’s, they’re
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Union, Trump
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