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View in browser AUGUST 16, 2019
From Ari Melber, hosting tonight on The Last Word:
"He's rattled."
That's how one Republican described President Trump's fears about the economy to the Washington Post.
The president has been banking on a strong economy to help him win a second term, and now, in public and in private, the president is reportedly shaken by the prospect of a downturn. The Post reports: "Mounting signs of global economic distress this week have alarmed President Trump, who is worried that a downturn could imperil his reelection... the president has sounded anxious and apprehensive."
The New York Times adds: "In private, he has expressed his own anxiety about the economy taking a dive, knowing that his electoral fortunes are likely tied to it."
New polling from Fox News suggests that a growing number of Americans are displeased with some of Trump's economic decisions. 46 percent of voters say that imposing tariffs on products imported from other countries -- like, say, China -- hurts the American economy. So as the president's fears rise, how is he responding?
The Times described Trump's recent rally in New Hampshire as "at times a greatest hits album of favorite lines... Typically rambling, veering on and off script... he repeated points he had already made earlier in the evening as if he did not remember already making them." The one person the president refuses to blame is himself. The Post says Trump is taking a "conspiratorial view, telling some confidants that he distrusts statistics he sees reported in the news media." It's likely this isn't the last time you'll hear a line like that from the president before Election Day.
2020, here we come.
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Quote of the Day “Anyone who despairs about a time when America is divided... has to go back to a moment like August of 1969, 50 years ago, to see how quickly we were able to overcome it and how much the DNA of the United States draws us together in the end.” — Historian Michael Beschloss reflects on the 50th anniversary of Woodstock this weekend
This Sunday Every day, Americans rely on functioning tunnels, roads, and bridges. Both political parties agree that American infrastructure is in dire need of improvement. Why, then, is nothing getting done? The next episode of American Swamp takes a look at an issue affecting all Americans. Tune in Sunday, August 18 at 9 p.m. ET.
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