tered. The index has fallen for most of the entire Biden presidency. The confidence numbers have gotten worse
every year Biden-Harris have been in office. Notice that as soon as Trump was elected, the Small Business Optimism Index soared; the minute Biden was elected, small businesses went into a four-year funk.
BORDER INSECURITY Immigration is a positive force for the American economy, but it has to be through legal channels. Trump ran for office promising to “build the
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NEARLY QUADRUPLED UNDER BIDEN Encounters at the southwestern border
3,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 0
wall” and stop illegal immigration. He succeeded in slowing the flow, but under Biden, illegal immigration is some four times higher than under Trump. Worse, the person in charge of the border was Harris.
She presided over the greatest border disaster in American history. Scary to think about what would happen with her in charge of our nation’s entire national security. Legal immigration has been steady, but now illegal immigration exceeds legal entries. Biden reversed dozens of Trump’s border security initia-
tives, such as his “Remain in Mexico” policy. An estimated 7-10 million people have entered the country illegally since he came into office. The rate of deported illegal immigrants has been half as
high under Biden as Trump, even though the number of illegal crossings has soared.
LOST CONFIDENCE IN ECONOMY So, how do Americans rate Trump’s economy versus Biden’s? Polling is tricky, because pollsters can jigger the ques-
tions to get the answers they want, and sometimes you will get an outlier poll that skews in one direction or another. But there has been complete consistency in the polls on how Americans rate the economy. They almost all come to the same result on consumer confidence and outlook for the future economic conditions.
AMERICANS’ RATE ECONOMY STRONG UNDER TRUMP, POOR UNDER BIDEN American’s ratings of current economic conditions
70%
60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%
Trump started with less than a third of Americans approving of economic conditions.
63% 31% January 2017 February 2020
Nearly two-thirds of Americans approved of economic conditions before COVID-19.
28% January 2021
Americans approval of economic conditions has dropped under Biden to just over one-fifth.
22%
February 2024 SOURCE: Gallup
Trump Annual Average Biden Annual Average
2,070,138 534,023 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024* SOURCE: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, *through May 2024
Encounters nearly four times greater under Biden at southwestern border
As the chart below shows, throughout almost the entire
Trump presidency, almost two of three Americans rated the economy as “good” or “great.” Under Biden through May 2024, almost two of three Americans rate the economy as “fair” or “poor.” The media may be trumpeting how well Biden is per- forming. But the public isn’t buying it.
VERDICT: TRUMP IS PRESIDENT FOR MIDDLE CLASS Harris says she wants to “build out the middle class.” That sounds like a familiar theme. It’s exactly what Barack Obama and Biden promised. But as the accompanying charts show with compelling
official government data, Trump beats Biden in delivering for working-class Americans. All of the aforementioned indicators are harsh economic
and pocketbook realities that Americans see and feel every day. They are almost all pointing in the direction of decline under Biden-Harris. One of the few areas where Biden has a strong record is
on job creation. The jobs numbers have been revised down- ward by nearly 1 million. Also, under Biden a much larger percentage of the jobs are part time, and one of the lead- ing areas of employment growth has been in government/ healthcare. Over the last 18 months, the U.S. had created
more government/healthcare jobs than the total for manufacturing, construction, mining, ware- housing, drilling, and transportation combined. What’s scary is that Harris doesn’t seem to
have any solution to these problems — or even an acknowledgement that they created them. She blames “greedy corporations,” or Putin, or Trump, or the Republicans in Congress, or even climate change. But to really understand how America slipped
into this economic ditch, Biden and Harris need to simply look in the mirror.
OCTOBER 2024 | NEWSMAX 11
BORDER/DAVID PEINADO/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
Share of Americans who rate current economic conditions as excellent/good
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