Former President Barack Obama addressed voters who next month may be tempted to vote for his successor, former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump, based on the state of the economy during Trump’s first administration.
Obama acknowledged Thursday at a Pittsburgh rally for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris that “some people think, ‘Well, I don’t know. I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good.’”
Then he added, “Yeah, it was pretty good because it was my economy.”
“We had had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him,” remembered Obama, under who the economy grew solidly before Trump took over and continued to develop it until the coronavirus pandemic.
“It wasn’t something he did,” Obama added. “I had spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time. So, just in case everybody has a hazy memory, he didn’t do nothing, except those big tax cuts.”
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Obama: "The reason some people think, 'I remember that economy when he first came in being pretty good.' Yeah it was pretty good, because it was my economy ... I had spent 8 years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time." pic.twitter.com/oYKwPIux4Z
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