Biden Campaign Touts Numbers Showing He's Cleaning Up The Economic Mess Left By Trump

The Biden Campaign is going on the offensive on the economy, but they are doing it in a way that directly calls out Donald Trump. After a stronger-than-expected November jobs report, the Biden campaign touted the numbers and said that they are "cleaning up" the economic mess that they inherited from Trump. This is a strong, and accurate, message that the campaign needs to be hitting on as frequently as possible, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The recent jobs report shows that the United States added an additional 199,000 jobs for the month of November. Unemployment fell to 3.7%, both of which beat expectations for the month of November. So roughly 200,000 jobs unemployment continuing to fall. We have now had unprecedented several years of consistent job growth every month under President Biden. Now, in the beginning it was obvious that most of these jobs being, you know, added to uh, the job role were jobs that were lost during Covid. So they weren't necessarily new jobs, they were just jobs coming back. But that wore off well over a year ago. And we're still seeing consistent expectation beating job growth here in the United States. That is something to be proud of and the Biden administration absolutely is proud of it. And the Biden campaign recently put out a statement that not only touts these wonderful economic numbers, but also takes a pretty good shot at Donald Trump.

Here's what the campaign said. Joe Biden has now created more jobs in less than three years than any president created in four, cleaning up the economic disaster left behind, of course, referring to Donald Trump. There's more work to be done, but his record shows Americans can't trust Trump to do it. Instead of standing up to corporate greed to lower costs and raise wages for working people, Trump would double down on the same failed policies that gave massive tax cuts to the rich and big corporations while creating incentives to ship American jobs overseas. So not only do we have these good economic numbers under President Biden, but we had economic disaster under Donald Trump even before Covid. And I've pointed this out a hundred times. I'm gonna keep pointing it out 'cause this is something people forget, but I know it because I was talking about it every day before Covid became a thing, economists were already predicting that Trump's policies were leading us into a recession.

Uh, predictions range from six months to 18 months. Obviously we hit the recession because of Covid much earlier, but the recession was coming no matter what. Every Republican president in my lifetime has plunged the country into a recession. The Democratic president that comes after them, whether it's Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, the only three Democratic presidents in my lifetime, they have always had to clean up the mess. And that is what President Biden is doing, and that is what his campaign is pointing out. Last year, economists had predicted that we were going to be heading into a recession again because of the economic policies of this administration. Even the ones that did hurt and we disagreed with at the time, you know, the raising of the interest

Rates. Economists now say that that looming recession from a year ago is now averted. There is no recession on the horizon. And I do also, uh, about this statement they made. I will point out I like the fact that they're like, there's still work to be done because they understand that yeah, the economy is looking good on paper, but we still got millions of people struggling. They're struggling because of corporate greed that is keeping our prices high, even though inflation has cooled. You know, you can blame Biden all you want for inflation. He didn't do that. That's corporate greed. And I'll give you this, he's not doing enough to tackle it.