Trump has nothing to fear but fear itself. And that’s the problem.
Jul 25, 2019
4 minutes
Imagine you’re president, facing reelection in a little over a year. Your approval numbers have never topped 50% and the opposition is all fired up. You have one, well, trump card.
The economy.
It’s not just that it’s now the longest expansion in U.S. history or that unemployment is at 50-year lows. The economy has also done measurably better under President Donald Trump than it did under his predecessor, Barack Obama. And a majority of voters are giving him credit for that.
But if Mr. Trump hopes to keep the expansion going – at least through Election Day – he is going
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