Fact-checking Donald Trump’s closing economic arguments

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s closing economic arguments
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As Election Day nears, former President Donald Trump released an ad chock-full of economic claims. Many are misleading o

Former President Donald Trump appears in an ad by his campaign that criticizes his opponent, Kamala Harris, over the economy. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the 2017 tax bill Trump signed was the fourth-largest since 1940, and as a percentage of gross domestic product, it ranked seventh.This is close to true if someone erases the final year of Trump’s presidency, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Through February 2020, the number of nonfarm U.S. jobs rose by 6.7 million.

However, some of the biggest negative economic changes occurred during the final year of Trump’s presidency, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. These include an increase in the, which peaked at 14.8% in April 2020 and remained at an elevated 6.7% during Trump’s final full month in office.has risen to almost 16.6 million more than the level when Trump left office, and 6.8 million more than Trump’s prepandemic peak.

“Ballots are not supposed to have fold lines or creases in the candidates name area” or it could invalidate your vote. Gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte “has voted for national abortion bans, she has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, and she shepherded Neil Gorsuch through the Supreme Court process, and then celebrated when Roe v. Wade was overturned.”“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump's administration.

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