Why Joe Biden Isn’t Getting Credit for the Economy
The Run-Up
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As he runs for re-election, it feels like President Biden is talking about one specific issue, |
| 0:11.0 | maybe more than anything else. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, the U.S. has the highest economic growth rate leading the world economies since the |
| 0:20.2 | pandemic, the highest in the world. The economy. Our economy came roaring back. Unemployment |
| 0:26.7 | dip below 4% by the end of my first year in office. Under his administration |
| 0:32.0 | there's been record low unemployment. |
| 0:35.0 | Bringing down inflation remains one of my top priorities. |
| 0:37.5 | Today inflation is less than half, less than half of what it was a year ago, and slowing inflation. |
| 0:44.0 | He even has a catchy nickname for his pitch. |
| 0:49.0 | That's Bidenomics in action. |
| 0:51.0 | Bidenomics is about building an economy. from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top |
| 0:56.2 | town. |
| 0:57.2 | To hear him tell it, his leadership brought Americans financial prosperity in the post-pandemic world. The problem with that story |
| 1:06.0 | though is that so few Americans seem to buy it. A recent survey of battleground states from the New York Times and |
| 1:14.2 | Siena College found that 51% of voters think the state of the economy is |
| 1:19.8 | poor. And voters, especially younger folks and people without college degrees, trust Biden less than Trump to fix it. |
| 1:29.0 | In fact, the problem is so bad that while Biden still touts the same economic message, |
| 1:36.4 | his campaign seems to have ditched its signature catchphrase. |
| 1:41.2 | So what gives? And what's the gap between the good economy as described by Joe Biden and |
| 1:47.8 | the not-so-great economy as felt by so many Americans. Today, a campaign to raise the minimum wage in Ohio, and why the |
| 1:58.4 | poorest Americans aren't buying biodynamics. From the New York Times, I'm a Sted Herndon. This is the run-up. |
| 2:07.0 | When I heard through the political group was organizing low-income service workers in Ohio |
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