Hey there, it's the Imperial Politics Podcast. It is 12.45 Eastern on Friday, June 5th.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover the campaign.

I must not call it, I also cover the campaign.

And on my Shorasco, I cover the White House.

As protests against police violence continue throughout the country, we did wake up to a surprise

and in quite the plot twists for 2020, it was, wait for it, a positive surprise.

The U.S. added jobs to the economy, two and a half million jobs.

President Trump was eager to trump it this news today.

The prediction was that the unemployment rate would rise to over 20%, and instead it dropped

to around a little more than 13%, slight difference.

And this time, the greatest comeback in American history.

Today is probably, if you think of it, the greatest comeback in American history.

But it's not going to stop here. It's going to keep going.

This is a big deal because economists were expecting the economy to shed more jobs in

May, but actually they were created.

And it's a sign that maybe the economy or that the economy seems to be bouncing back

much quicker than people expected.

We knew that things were opening up, but we didn't know how soon the recovery would

start happening.

And right now, as of what we saw in May, it looks like there is some recovery happening.

But at this point, the unemployment rate is still over 13%.

And I mean, that is really high.

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