I would expect that any random person on the street would be more trusted on the economy than Trump
If economic expertise actually consisted of lying, filing false financial statements, running businesses into the ground, dodging creditors and filing bankruptcy, then Trump would be unmatched. But those decidedly are not signs of economic expertise - exactly the opposite in fact.
I would expect the same, and yet the polling shows that Trump was consistently leading Biden on the economy. The random person on the street probably sees the guy is rich and ostentatious with his money, and assumes that means he knows something about the economy.
The fact Kamala is leading on this seems like a big deal given the state of the US economy was perceived as the Democrats’ most vulnerable issue going into this election.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/ZcfbY
The survey, conducted for the Financial Times and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, is the first monthly poll to show the Democratic presidential candidate leading Trump on the economy since it began tracking voter sentiment on the issue nearly a year ago.
Although 41 per cent of Americans still trust the former president more on economic issues — unchanged from the two previous monthly polls — the survey found 42 per cent of voters believe Harris would be better at handling the economy. That is a 7 percentage point increase compared to Biden’s numbers last month.
More trusted than Donald Trump on everything*.
The guy who believes that imposing tariffs on Chinese products has no impact on the local economy and purchasing power for the people he says he’s protecting isn’t a genius when it comes to the economy? Really?
