During a Friday, September 13, broadcast on CNN, the network’s Kate Bolduan panicked a bit over polling showing that, in the wake of the contentious presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris that ABC News hosted, voters still overwhelmingly think that Trump is the better choice for the economy.
As background, VP Harris attempted to bolster her economic credentials during the debate, contending that Trump’s plan amounts to a sales tax that will hurt the economy while hers will improve the economy and that she is backed up in arguing as much by a Goldman Sachs report. The CEO of Goldman Sachs said shortly afterward that she’s making too much of the report that only shows a 0.2% difference, if any.
In any case, Bolduan appeared on CNN’s “News Central” alongside far-left commentator Van Jones and supposed Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin. The group spoke about the economy through the lens of a recent poll. That poll found that the margin of voters who see Trump as being better for the economy than VP Harris actually increased after the debate, rising from 16% to 20% of points of advantage, with him now leading 55% to Harris’ 35%.
Bolduan, commenting on the matter, first pointed to the Federal Reserve and the general belief that it might cut rates in the coming weeks, which could bolster the economy and stock market in the run-up to the election. She said, “We’ve got the Fed very likely looking to cut rates for the first time since early pandemic days.”
Continuing, she noted that such a Fed policy shift in the weeks before the election could mean a boost for the Kamala campaign, saying, “What does that mean for this point in the campaign? Because it’s a funky place. You’ve got, potentially, a good sign that Kamala Harris can talk about, kind of quote-unquote late-stage change.”
She then noted that, though Kamala could get that boost, Trump still has a step up as regards the economy. She said, “But you still have Donald Trump killing her when it comes to the economy. In that snap poll after the debate, he was up 20 points on the economy even though the vast majority said she won the debate.”
That wasn’t all. Later in the broadcast, Bolduan said that Democrats and Biden-Harris Administration officials continue to question why Kamala isn’t managing to do better with the public on the issue of the economy and that they think the reason is that voters “just haven’t gotten our message.” It could also be that the inflation and uncertainty of the Biden-Harris economy is weighing on voters, though Bolduan didn’t admit as much.
She said, commenting on frustration from the Biden-Harris camp, “I just think the response I’ve gotten to ‘why isn’t she doing better on the economy’ or ‘why wasn’t Biden doing better on the economy’ that I’ve gotten from administration officials and from Democratic electeds, it has been unsatisfying to this point, which is they just haven’t gotten our message.” She added, “And at some point, I’m asking, where’s the expiration date on that reasoning? As at some point there has to be.”
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