During Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Republican faced a dilemma. On the one hand, the economy was relatively healthy at the time, and the unemployment rate was steadily improving in the run-up to Election Day. On the other hand, Trump wanted voters to believe the United States was in the midst of an economic disaster that only he could fix.
This year, he’s not saying the job numbers are fictional, so much as he’s asking voters to believe that President Joe Biden doesn’t deserve credit for the jobs boom that happened after he began implementing his economic agenda. There are, however, a few problems with this. First, Biden does, in fact, deserve credit. Hardly anyone expected the U.S.