President Trump came to Wisconsin late last month to boast about the state’s unemployment rate, which has been at or near 3 percent for more than a year. “It’s never been this low before. Ever, ever, ever,” he said. (Fact check: true.) …
The message of a thriving economy — assuming that Mr. Trump sticks to it, as aides and allies have been urging him to do — could leave Democrats especially vulnerable when coupled with Republicans’ relentless attacks on their rivals as radicals who hold extreme positions on health care, abortion and the environment. …
Despite the good economic numbers, Mr. Trump will be trying to achieve something no president has done in modern times: win re-election without ever reaching 50 percent in Gallup’s job approval rating by this point in his first term. CONT.
Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times