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“Believe me: We’re in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the stock market — but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that’s going to come crashing down. We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.”
— President Trump, quoted by the Washington Post, during the first presidential debate in September 2016.
36%
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds just 36% of Americans say that they will definitely or probably vote for Donald Trump if he runs for reelection in 2020, while half indicate that they’ll definitely or probably support his Democratic general election challenger.
“Well, I’m just saying, we don’t know what it was. When you say, ‘we’ve got to make sure that this guy doesn’t get in at all costs,’ what does that mean? So I’m saying there’s a spectrum of what does it mean, but one thing that we know for sure, is that he was plotting in an election against a candidate, and there’s FBI fingerprints all over this.”
— Fox News contributor Kevin Jackson, suggesting that “social media” sources indicate an FBI plot to assassinate President Trump, according to Media Matters.
63%
A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 63% of American voters say the nation’s economy is “excellent” or “good,” while 34% say it is “not so good” or “poor.” More think President Obama is mostly responsible for the state of the economy, 45% of voters, than President Trump, 43% of voters. In fact, voters disapprove 51% to 44% of the way Trump is handling the economy.
55%
A new CNN poll finds opposition to the Republican tax bill has grown 10 points since early November, and 55% now oppose it. Just 33% say they favor the GOP’s proposal. Meanwhile, President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 35%, his worst mark yet in CNN polling.
14%
Bloomberg: “Trump mentions the stock market almost daily in tweets or public remarks, taking direct credit for record highs by the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other indices. But only about 14 percent of U.S. families directly own stocks, an asset class dominated by the country’s top earners, according to the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, the president has also rolled back efforts to expand retirement savings options to more middle-class and low-income workers.”
“Our tax system is punishing all those qualities that make America great.”
— Speaker Paul Ryan, in a video celebrating the GOP tax bill, when he was a 28-year old congressman.
