Donald Trump Holds His Last Election Rallies In Counties Where Wage-Growth Slowed
While He Was In Charge
In the closing days of the presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump is jetting around the country at a breakneck pace as he attempts another come-from-behind victory. He will headline events in Michigan, Southeast Florida and Western Pennsylvania. He'll rally his supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Rome, Georgia; and Opa-locka, Florida.
He's scheduled to visit eight states and as many as 16 counties, making his case for re-election from Friday through Monday, according to his campaign website. He will promise to make America great again, again and put the COVID crisis in the rearview mirror. His downplaying of the pandemic has rubbed many voters the wrong way as the country experiences a spike in COVID cases over the past two weeks and faces a mounting death toll that now stands at nearly 230,000.
But there is another weak link in the president's closing argument. The pre-COVID economy, the "best economy ever," was not as strong as advertised. And that fact is manifest in the president's own get-out-the-vote travel schedule.
Under his watch, wage growth actually slowed in most of the places he has visited or will touch down in between October 30 and November 2. On average, residents in 11 of the 16 counties on Trump's final campaign tour saw slower annual real wage growth during the first three years of the Trump administration when compared to the last three years of the Obama Administration, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute and shared with Capital & Main.
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