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Nobel economist lays out 'really bad news' for Trump before midterms
What happened
Paul Krugman’s “really, really bad news” for Donald Trump and Republicans is the widening gap between the administration’s economic sales pitch and voters’ reported experience one month before the midterms. As AlterNet reports, Krugman pointed to worsening economic sentiment, perceptions of a weaker job market, and a sharp rise in mortgage rates.
In an AP-NORC survey of 2,140 adults conducted Sept. 24–28, 74 percent called the national economy poor and 73 percent disapproved of Trump’s handling of it. Fifty-five percent said their local economy was worse than when Trump took…
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