Source: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Historically great presidents take action, in important
challenges, to preserve the welfare for the greatest number of people in their
care.
When doing so even despite a pandemic, cities wrestling
with nightly crime and violence, massive power outages, an opposing party in
government attempting to thwart every move and a 95 percent hostile media doing
98 percent negative coverage—even then—they can’t be stopped.
Yes, despite all that a president can achieve an approval
rating seven percent ahead of where his predecessor was in his bid to a
successful re-election. He can also be winning the hearts and minds of not just
98 percent of his base, but leading with independents, and very quietly be
preparing to take the largest swath of black votes in the history of the GOP.
Welcome to the 2020 reality for President Donald Trump.
This week, perhaps sensing that they have lost all
control of this election cycle, the man and team of Joe Biden sputtered chaotic
nonsense and now have to sit on the sidelines as the president used his working
weekend to, again, help secure America’s future.
Biden also had some fairly embarrassing tweets/moments
where he claimed he’d solve the problems President Trump already had.
Low Wage Earnings
Former VP Biden tweeted on Friday about the need to see
earnings for low-wage earners improve and how he will be the president to do
it. Only problem: prior to COVID, the Trump economy was the hottest for
low-wage earners in the history of the nation. The recovery also seems to be
benefitting the low-wage earners with many of the record breaking 10 million
new jobs created in the last 90 days going to those in their category. Lastly,
this weekend the president did what Biden, Pelosi and the Democratic controlled
House refused to do, which was to provide more financial relief directly to the
people. Unilaterally extending the unemployment benefit, on an emergency basis,
proves he’s gravely concerned about the most vulnerable in the financial
crisis.
COVID Relief
On the virus front the president also did some important
things that team Biden and Democrats couldn’t. Since government was largely the
cause of the artificial crashing of the economy, government has a larger onus
than normal to provide help. But since—as he should—the president left the solving
of the virus to the individual states he recognizes where politically motivated
governors and mayors in places like New York, Chicago, California, Michigan and
elsewhere continue to bully their constituents instead of serving those who
elected them. By dealing with student loan furloughs and extending grace
periods for renters and home owners he is doing—in his own limited way, and
based on the emergency of the crisis—what the people’s local governments were
refusing to do.
Tax Cuts
Democrats (with the exception of JFK) have never figured
out the benefit of stimulating strong economic activity by letting those who
work, keep and use more of their own earnings. The old Democrats might have
been quasi-willing to cooperate on tax relief in exchange for selfish political
benefits. The new ones however—the AOC, Bernie Sanders, Marxist/Anarchists that
Biden has turned over his campaign to—have no use for any tax help. By
providing a payroll tax holiday for every family earning under $100,000 for
2020, Trump helps millions of families. It also
provides additional incentives for those still out of work to consider starting
their own entrepreneurial endeavors, and it strongly encouraged small
businesses not to shrink the work force but to expand it here in the final
stretch of 2020 as the race to economic recovery hits warp speed. This
incentive alone should encourage the continuation of the “millions” of jobs per
months recovery, perhaps in ways that sans the crisis might not have been as
efficient or ever come about.
Race
Every one of the areas of benefit listed above will
impact all Americans. And under such conditions prior to
COVID, Black America was already making the greatest strides in the modern era
on wage growth, business start-ups, job expansion, job selection, and new
opportunities. Long after Biden authored the criminal reform law that blacks
say helped destroy the black family... Long after Joe Biden labeled
then-candidate Obama “clean and articulate” for being a black man... Not so
long after telling Charlamagne Tha God that he couldn’t be a black man if he
didn’t vote for him... Biden, completely without merit, implied that a
successful black TV anchor should be tested for cocaine use and asked him if he
was “a junkie,” and followed that up the next day by stating
implicitly that the African American community is not “diverse.” Meanwhile,
President Trump continues to push for criminal justice reform and helping black
families in actual policy that allows the maximum number of people to achieve
the American dream.
America First
With less than 90 days to go until the election, America
is watching the stage on which these two men are making their case to be
allowed to serve for the next four years. Donald Trump’s personal net worth has
lost $2 billion dollars in the four years he has taken zero salary as
president. Joe Biden has been in public life for 47 years and literally has no
solutions to problems he’s campaigned on for those same 47 years. The president
is demonstrating every day — in his actions — that anything the Democrats claim
they are able to do, that he’s probably already doing it, and in great
likelihood doing it better.
That’s why he’s got a 51 percent approval rating on the
same day in the process that Obama has 44 percent in 2012.
That’s why he’s now leading Biden in the ever critical
category of independent voters.
That’s why he’s holding his base in the high 90 percent
range.
That’s why he’s attracting what will be the biggest
crossover of African American voters to ever have voted for the GOP.
And that’s but a few more reasons why the media will have
indigestion on the night of November 3.
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RELATED
ARTICLE
U.S. Manufacturers Are Coming Back Thanks to
Trump
By Ken
Blackwell | Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/Matt Rourke
President Trump’s recent visit to Clyde, Ohio is a symbol
of hope for manufacturers all over the country who had been forgotten by the
Washington, D.C. establishment for decades until the current administration
took office.
Prior to Donald Trump's stop at the city’s Whirlpool
manufacturing plant, no U.S. President had set foot in Sandusky County for more
than a century. Much like Ohio’s manufacturing sector, the region was sorely
neglected by the political elites, who cared more about maximizing America’s
GDP than they did about the lives and livelihoods of millions of American
workers.
Everything changed with the election of Donald J. Trump,
who has kept his promise to rebuild American manufacturing as part of his plan
to Make America Great Again.
“[Your] manufacturing jobs, your steel jobs, your miners
are going to be protected, your miners are going back to work,” he said during a 2016 speech in Cincinnati, adding that
Ohio was among the states that suffered the most under the Great Recession.
“The state of Ohio has lost one in three manufacturing jobs since NAFTA,” he
continued, vowing to pursue a new trade policy that would put Ohio workers
first.
As he reminded the workers in Clyde, that’s exactly what
he’s done.
First, the president imposed strategic counter-tariffs on
bad actors such as China to combat the effects of illegal and abusive trade
practices that previously put companies like Whirlpool at an unfair
disadvantage. As a direct result of this effort, Whirlpool was able to expand
its operations and add 200 local jobs at its facility in Clyde.
“Under the last administration, the men and women at
Whirlpool saw their jobs and factories targeted for destruction,” the
president said during his visit, noting that the Obama-Biden administration
did nothing to stop the assault on Ohio manufacturers. “Under my
administration, all of that has changed.”
Of course, Whirlpool is just one of many success stories
that have been made possible by the Trump administration’s pro-growth economic
policies. In July alone, several major manufacturers announced their own plans
to expand operations in the Buckeye State, investing millions of dollars in
local communities and creating hundreds of new jobs across the state.
Advanced manufacturer Dorel Home, for instance, recently
decided o invest $3.3 million on its facility in Tiffin, creating almost 100
new jobs. Shutterfly, meanwhile, is investing a whopping $23.2 million on upgrades to its
Crawford County plant. International Cushioning Company, a commercial packaging
manufacturer, is slated to spend $3.6 million on a new facility in the state,
as well.
There will be more success stories to come because
President Trump will never stop fighting for American manufacturers. Just
recently, the White House took bold steps to ensure that companies don’t
displace American workers by abusing H-1B visas, ensuring that Americans will
be first in line for the millions of jobs that are already being created by our
“V-shaped” post-pandemic economic recovery.
The president is also seizing this opportunity to cut
America’s reliance on foreign supply chains — a dependence that had tragic
consequences during the coronavirus pandemic — and just announced a directive to ensure that essential
medicines are produced in the U.S. from here on out.
The record is crystal clear — no other president has done
more to strengthen Ohio manufacturers than Donald Trump. The future of our
state is brighter than ever before.
Ken Blackwell served as the mayor of
Cincinnati, Ohio, the Ohio State Treasurer, and Ohio Secretary of State. He
currently serves on the board of directors for Club for Growth and National
Taxpayers Union.
