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🗓️ 21 March 2024
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Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: Many Americans say the economy is their top issue this election year, with roughly two-thirds of voters saying they don’t feel it’s working for them. That’s despite a variety of indicators that show the economy is healthy and thriving. Guest host Brian Stelter talked with Megan Leonhardt, a senior writer for Barron’s, and Betsey Stevenson, a labor economist and professor at the University of Michigan, about the disconnect between the data and voter sentiment, as well as Joe Biden’s and Donald Trump’s first-term track records.
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0:00.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Brian Stelter, filling in for Shimina Bessu. |
0:10.0 | Today, who's better for the economy, Biden or Trump? |
0:15.0 | One of the issues that matters the most to Americans this election is the economy. |
0:28.0 | If voters are feeling good about the economy come November, that could help President Joe Biden's chances at re-election. |
0:33.7 | I inherited economy is on the brink. |
0:36.1 | Now our economy is literally the envy of the world. |
0:39.8 | 15 million new jobs in just three years, a record. |
0:45.2 | But if voters aren't buying what Biden is selling, |
0:47.7 | if voters aren't feeling good about the economy, |
0:50.2 | that could push enough people |
0:51.5 | to re-elect former president Donald Trump. |
0:54.0 | We will stop Joe Biden's inflation disaster and we will rebuild the greatest economy |
1:00.0 | in the history of the world with tax cuts, regulation cuts, energy price cuts and |
1:06.2 | interest rates cuts like you've never seen before. |
1:09.8 | Right now we are still many months away from election day. But so far polls about the |
1:14.3 | economy don't vote well for Biden. According to a recent CBS news poll just |
1:19.2 | 38% of people feel the economy is doing well today under Biden. That compares with |
1:24.3 | 64% of survey respondents who felt things were going well under Trump. But this is |
1:29.7 | complicated. If you were to look at the economic indicators, they tell a different story. |
1:34.8 | So we have a lot of indicators that were in a pretty solid, pretty strong economy, |
1:40.0 | particularly in the last year. That's Megan Lenhart, a senior writer for Barons who covers economic issues. |
1:46.1 | We had really great GDP growth that we weren't quite frankly expecting to see. |
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