… For months, the standing assumption has been that the still-strong economy would be a boon to Trump. Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt made that case here at The Washington Post over the weekend, arguing that Trump was a lock for a second term simply because the economy was so good.
Polling released on Monday, though, suggests that this isn’t necessarily the case — just as it wasn’t in 2018. …
A poll from Monmouth University offers some hints. Most Americans say that they themselves haven’t benefited much if at all from the good economy. Only among Republicans did more than half say they’d benefited some or a great deal. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post