One of the main issues for the election is the economy.
It's already been bad under Biden-Harris. It got worse on Friday as the stock market tanked and a bad July jobs report came in, as we reported.
Hiring slowed to 114,000 jobs last month, the government report said, missing expectations. The unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent—its highest level in nearly three years, when the economy was still clawing its way back from the pandemic. That was also worse than expectations.
Now, that raises big concerns about a slowing economy, which my colleague Ward Clark noted.
Economist John Lonski said on Fox Business that it is starting to look like a recession is coming into view:
"I'm beginning to smell a recession coming into view," Lonski said. "This jump by the unemployment rate, my goodness, 4.3 percent, this is up sharply from not long ago."
Even CNN had to admit the jobs report was "surprisingly weak" and "going in the wrong direction."
CNN reporter Matt Egan said, "This jobs report was weak -- surprisingly weak, and it is amplifying these concerns about the economy that have started to emerge":
So, what excuse did the Harris team have?
You won't believe how unhinged their response was to this. Or maybe you will, given how so much of what they say isn't based on any kind of reality. The response to this question alone should be disqualifying because it's such a bunch of horse hockey.
According to Harris' spokesperson, guess who's somehow responsible for their bad jobs report?
"Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession," Harris for President spokesperson James Singer said in a statement.
"Now, he’s promising even more damage with a Project 2025 agenda that will decimate the middle class and increase taxes on working families, while ripping away health care, raising prescription drug costs, and cutting Social Security and Medicare — all while making his billionaire donors richer."
Someone want to explain how the Biden-Harris disaster has anything to do with Trump, almost a full term after he was in office? What does that say about their refusal to take accountability for their own failures? And what does Project 2025 (which isn't in effect) have to do with anything--when it has nothing to do with Trump and nothing to do with the Biden-Harris bad economy? Do they really think Americans are going to buy all this bilge?
Singer added: "We’ve made significant progress, but Vice President Harris knows there’s more work to do to lower costs for families."
Singer said Harris "will make building up the middle class the defining goal of her presidency, taking on greedy corporations that are price gouging consumers, banning hidden fees, and capping unfair rent increases and drug costs."
So, she's going to say and do the same things that they've already been doing that helped get us into this mess to begin with, blaming everyone else but themselves for the problems.
Ultimately, it always comes down to the economy and Harris just gave a sure-fire reason why you should not vote for her, when she refuses to take responsibility for the administration's own actions.