Americans Voted to Make the American Economy Great Again
The American people re-elected Donald Trump in great part out of a rejection of the economy forged by the policies of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party and a desire for a revival of the prosperity of the former president’s first term.
The exit polling makes it very clear that this was an economy election, as Breitbart Business Digest has been consistently arguing for over a year. Sixty-three percent of voters said the economy was either “poor” or “not so good,” according to the exit polling from Fox News in partnership with the Associated Press. Of the 40 percent who described the economy as “not so good,” Trump won 59 percent of the vote. Of the 24 percent who said the economy was “poor,” Trump won 84 percent of the vote. (The numbers don’t quite add up due to rounding.)
An old rule of thumb in American politics is that candidates should avoid getting on the wrong side of any issue in which 60 percent of Americans agree. Kamala Harris and the Democrats were decidedly on the wrong side, frequently claiming that economic conditions were benign or even amazing. “An economy with an unemployment rate of 4 percent and a per-person GDP of $85,000 does not have to be made great again; it is great,” the Economist opined.