![]() ![]() Saturday marks one month until midterm elections as Republicans aim to take back the House of Representatives and the Senate. He will hold a "Save America" rally in in Minden, Nevada, on Saturday, followed by another event in Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday. We would have liked to have more people, but I would consider it a success," Moran told The Daily Beast.įormer President Trump wasn't involved in Friday's event in Washington, D.C., but he will be attending a pair of rallies this weekend. "We put the word out, literally, about a week ago. have been poorly attended in 2022, but Moran appeared to shrug off the low turnout. They disappeared entirely," Weiss said.Īnother attendee blamed the Capitol riot of Januas a reason that certain pro-Trump events in D.C. Weiss added that email invitations to the event may have ended up in people's spam folders and that the emails being marked as spam could be nefarious. Deborah Weiss, a right-wing speaker and lawyer, blamed the fact that the event was taking place on a sunny weekday afternoon when "a lot of people work." Some of the attendees offered their own reasons why the number of people at the rally was so low. Click here, for more.Read more Trump rally speech shows he's "guilty and scared": Former prosecutorĮvent organizer John Paul Moran, who is founder of the group GOUSA, described the protesters as "paid agitators" and members of Antifa, while accusing them of trying to interrupt the event. This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook. You can su bscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here. Conversation with Jesse Lee, Senior Adviser at the Center for American Progress, Nov.6: "Trump has the worst job losses on record heading into the election" 3: "Trump or Biden: Who would boost growth, restore jobs faster? Here’s an Election Day guide on the economy" ![]() USA TODAY, July 16: "Fact check: Trump doesn’t outperform other presidents despite 2 months of strong job gains".5: "Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on The Employment Situation for September 2020" ![]() Bureau of Labor Statistics, accessed Nov. 2: "THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION - SEPTEMBER 2020" Approximately 4 million fewer people were employed from January 2017 to September 2020, according to the most recent publicly available data. More jobs were lost during the Trump administration than any other in history. We rate this claim TRUE, based on our research. CAP's assertion that Trump is the worst jobs president in history appears to be true based on available data. Tracking job growth figures from Truman to Trump reveals unprecedented job losses during the Trump administration. Nonetheless, this is the highest unemployment rate preceding a presidential election since the government began tracking monthly rates in 1948, according to CNN. The September numbers from the Labor Department report reflected a bounce-back in the economy the unemployment rate reached 13.3% in May but fell to 7.9% in September. That remains 4.4 percentage points higher than before the pandemic took hold. People who reported not looking for work within the last four weeks because of the pandemic accounted for 4.5% of this number, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey. Or, looked at another way: Despite a five-month decline in the unemployment rate, 6.8 million more people were unemployed in September compared to February, according to an October press release from the Labor Department. "There is an infinite number of caveats that could be argued for or against, but the fact of the matter is that the simple analysis of job growth shows that President Trump is set to be the only president in recorded American history to have presided over net job loss," Lee said. The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't referenced in the CAP chart, but Lee argued such job losses would have been impossible to calculate. The pandemic's arrival is clear on the FRED chart of nonfarm payroll, with 152,463,000 Americans employed in February compared to 130,303,000 in April. ![]()
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