Trump Has a Strong Economy to Proclaim. In Wisconsin, It Just Might Work.

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