LOADING ERROR LOADINGMILWAUKEE — Republicans kicked off their presidential nominating convention Monday continuing to sell a myth critical to their effort to win back the White House in November: that Donald Trump created the best economy in American history. Glenn Youngkin called it in his speech to delegates on the “Make America Wealthy Again”-themed night of the four-day gathering. Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn invoked the low gas prices when Trump left the White House in 2021 compared to now. But even discounting the pandemic year, Trump’s economy had lower GDP growth and fewer new jobs in his first three years in office than predecessor Barack Obama’s final three years. And while it’s true gasoline prices collapsed in Trump’s final year, that was because so many Americans lost their jobs in 2020 and so many businesses had closed that the demand for gas plummeted.

Source: Huffington Post July 16, 2024 10:46 UTC