With less than a month to go before the U.S. elections, the American economy is in arguably in the best shape it has been prior to any presidential contest in recent history. Unemployment is at a more than two decade low.
Small business owners are growing more uncertain about the economy ahead of the presidential election and are reining in spending, according to a new survey.
Vice President Harris is releasing a new ad targeting Latinos in battleground states, focusing on her cost-of-living proposals. “Hard Work” will air in all battlegrounds with state-specific intros as part of the campaign’s $370 million investment in TV and digital ads in the final weeks of the campaign.
Their warning builds on the insights of Milton Friedman, the famous free-market economist who “believed the limitations on government concentration of economic power, adherence to the rule of law, respect for property rights and enforcement of contracts, was central to the prosperity of the free world.”
Harris says her proposals would help low- and middle-income workers. Trump says he would expand tax cuts, impose tariffs.
Most voters likely don’t even follow the overall economic trends, let alone one month’s data, he said. Instead, their views on the economy are shaped by how far their dollars are stretching today compared to recent times. That track record isn’t great nowadays.
Corey Lewandowski, a Trump campaign senior adviser, discusses how people would be able to measure an improved economy if former President Donald Trump is elected. Lewandowski says Trump would like to talk more about policy,
Vice President Harris is working to garner male support ahead of the election and is also doing her first interview with Fox News tomorrow. Democratic strategist Don Calloway and former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to VP Pence Olivia Troye join José Díaz-Balart to weigh in.
Covid slammed into the economy in Trump’s final year. Jobs soared under Biden, but so did inflation.
For Europe's economy, the Nov. 5 U.S. election offers a "least bad" outcome of a challenging Kamala Harris presidency or a second encounter with Donald Trump which threatens to be yet more bruising than the first.
Both Harris and Trump have pitched themselves as a better candidate for the economy. Retired voters in Michigan are paying close attention.