Good Morning! Here's an excerpt from a piece I have running today on the NBC News website. Yes, they do run some conservative stuff sometimes . .
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From the piece:
President Donald Trump made an unscheduled appearance on the White House South Lawn Friday morning, exactly one hour and 13 minutes after the Commerce Department announced the U.S. economy grew at the impressive rate of 4.1 percent in the second quarter.
“These are great numbers,” he said.
“We’ve accomplished an economic turnaround of historic proportions.”
Sure, some of this was Trumpian hyperbole. But it’s a show he can take on the road to help preserve Republicans majorities in the House and the Senate this November. Because there’s enough substance in the numbers and in the nearly 3 percent growth rate for the five complete quarters he’s been president that a salesman as good as Trump can sell the success . .
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His 2016 election win was about a lot of things that aren’t always prominent, like immigration and cultural change.
But according to the massive national exit poll, the economy was still the foremost issue in voters’ minds. Fully 52 percent named the economy as the “most important issue facing the country,” compared to only 18 percent who
said terrorism, 13 percent who went with immigration and another 13 percent who chose foreign policy.
The thing you still need to sell in an election is the economy — and right now for Republicans, that’s looking like a pretty high-quality product.
Cut to the News will return full time this evening.
Keith