Only one reason Trump still polls better on the Economy than Biden

[edhopper]

That is that too many people are more ignorant about basic Economics than Trump is.
And that is mighty ignorant.

[samnsara]

1. too any people think the stock market is the economy

[edhopper]

3. Or them still having a job

means the economy is good.
Even a shitty job where they are paid way less than they should be without benefits.

[LuvJoe]

2. Economy will have no bearings, remember we had Clinton and we had Obama

[edhopper]

5. Both won

because of a Republican lead recession.
Remember the Clinton campaign motto?

[SMC22307]

9. WHUT? (n/t)

[Peacetrain]

4. Give this man a cigar!!

Exactly

[Trumpocalypse]

6. Plus NBC spent 10 years selling him to America

as a genius businessman which he never was. Many in New York knew that he was a phony and conman but middle America still believe the propaganda.

[edhopper]

7. The truth about The Apprentice

he was just as incoherent and idiotic, but they had good editors.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Plus great Script Writers.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. The one smart thing Trump did was take credit and talk up the economy.

His constant rhetoric about how great the economy was, how it's the best economy ever and how awesome everyone's 401K is doing, worked.

People started buying it - especially those who actually had jobs.

One of the more frustrating things about Obama was how he always downplayed the recovery. I get why. He didn't want to showboat about an economy when it still wasn't working for everyone. But even days when the job report was really good, he'd pepper in language about how the economy was still not working for so many people. True, obviously, but it created an illusion that the economy wasn't all that great.

Trump went out and decided instead of focusing on the problematic areas of the recovery, he'd just focus on all the good and take credit for it.

It stuck.

[gulliver]

11. Biden taking back credit for the Obama/Biden economy should be a debate highlight.

All the numbers are against Trump. Plus it's a chance to dig into Trump's inheriting any "success" he ever had and then making a failure of it.

[Midnight Writer]

12. All finance media is conservative Republican. Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, Fox Busine

As far as I can tell, there are no alternatives.

[edhopper]

13. True

because the don't care about Main Street, just Wall Street and tax cuts.

[MissMillie]

14. And a lot of people believe the lies

In Trump's first 3 years in office fewer jobs were created than in Obama's last 3 years in office.

GDP in Obama's best year was 3.1 Trump's best year (pre-pandemic) was 3.0.

Most people don't know that. They believe 45 when he says he's done more.