8 GOP candidates still bragging about Trump's job numbers as unemployment soars

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By Josh Israel -April 30, 2020 2:54 PM

Over 30 million Americans have filed jobless claims in the past six weeks.

More than 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks, as the economy craters during the coronavirus pandemic. But based on their campaign websites, Donald Trump and a number of his Republican allies are still running for election on pre-COVID-19 job numbers and Trump's 2017 tax cuts bill.

As of April 14, the website of Trump's 2020 reelection campaign contained a section bragging about the "lowest" unemployment in years and said Trump had "jump-started America's economy into record growth" and millions of new jobs. At that point, about 17 million Americans had filed new unemployment insurance claims, wiping out the 6.1 million new jobs Trump claimed to have created.

The Trump campaign had not updated its "Promises Kept" microsite to reflect the current situation as of Thursday morning despite multiple inquiries about the figures. Indeed, the most recent news update in the section was posted in late January, five days after Trump's claim that he was not concerned about the coronavirus because "we have it totally under control."

A review of other Republican campaign websites revealed similar outdated information about employment numbers. These are some of the House and Senate candidates still running on Trump's vanished job growth and on tax cuts for the wealthy.

https://americanindependent.com/republicans-economy-donald-trump-coronavirus-jobs-numbers-mitch-mcconnell-covid-19/

Well a lot of them will be on the unemployment line in the very near future...........and they should be denied any money, if they don't apply for one legitimate job....................