Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat presidential nominee, has issued a statement blaming former President Donald Trump for the recent jobs report.
Somehow, according to Harris, the man who left office nearly four years ago is responsible for terrible jobs numbers under the Biden-Harris administration.
On Friday, Harris was officially installed as the Democrat nominee for president despite receiving zero votes in this year’s primary.
The Democrat Party just made Kamala Harris their official nominee for president.
This is despite the fact…
– Not a single person voted for her
– She won exactly 0 delegates.
– The vote to nominate her just now was done virtually with no transparency
– She’s done 0 sit down…— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 2, 2024
That same day, her campaign spokesperson issued a statement blaming her political opponent for skyrocketing unemployment numbers.
“Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession,” James Singer, a Harris for President spokesperson, falsely claimed — using the results of the COVID pandemic to describe Trump’s presidency rather than the prosperous economy Americans experienced for over three years of his administration.
Singer continued to lie throughout the statement, attributing The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda to Trump even though his campaign is not connected to the agenda at all and has even disavowed it.
“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,” he lied.
Trump has never supported cutting Social Security or Medicare, and was actually responsible for lowering prescription drug costs — a policy that President Joe Biden reversed upon taking office, then reimplemented under his name to take credit for the policy.
Meanwhile, the unemployment data that the Harris campaign falsely attributed to Trump was very bad news for the Biden-Harris administration — as it showed that the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, while employers only added 114,000 workers to their payrolls in July, despite economists estimating that the number would be 180,000.
“Since July of 2023 versus July of 2024, there's been a net zero job growth.”
"It is ABSOLUTELY CLEAR the economy is SLOWING DOWN.” pic.twitter.com/qUGduG5RFE
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 2, 2024
Many experts have predicted that this major rise in unemployment may signal a coming recession.
Economist John Lonski: "I'm beginning to smell a recession coming into view… this jump by the unemployment rate, my goodness, 4.3 percent this is up sharply from not long ago." pic.twitter.com/ORGmAXpbrV
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) August 2, 2024
According to Breitbart News Economics Editor John Carney, “The 4.3 percent unemployment rate brings the three-month average 50 basis points above the lowest three-month average over the past 12 months, a threshold known as the ‘Sahm Rule’ that historically has indicated the beginning of a recession.”
Carney went on to quote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who said on Wednesday that a recession was not guaranteed, despite the indicators associated with the “Sahm Rule.”
“It’s not like an economic rule, where it’s telling you something must happen,” Powell said.
Republicans have also come out with statements pointing to the failed Biden-Harris administration policies that actually led to the dismal jobs report.
A statement from Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) read: “Stagnant job growth and rising unemployment – these are the consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic policies. The harsh reality is that the Biden-Harris economy is failing American workers every day. Their policies just aren’t working – we need a new direction for our economy.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt also released a statement, which read: “Kamala Harris has proudly and repeatedly celebrated her role as Joe Biden’s co-pilot on ‘Bidenomics.’ She cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate for spending that put inflation on steroids, and despite the evidence that America’s working families are hurting she tells us these failed plans are working.”
“The basic necessities of food, gas and housing are less affordable, unemployment is rising, and Kamala doesn’t seem to care,” Leavitt added.
