Harris makes false claim about Trump’s record on manufacturing jobs

US Vice President Kamala Harris falsely claimed Wednesday night while appearing on MSNBC that her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, had bad work experience.

Interviewer Stephanie Ruhle asked her what she thought of the latest polls showing that most people still consider former President Donald Trump as the best option for managing the economy.

And Harris replied, “Well, in terms of facts, this is what I know.” And it’s clear that the economy today under Donald Trump is the worst since the Great Recession. When you think about, for example, the realities of business, that’s pretty obvious. In response, Harris said that “most people estimate that even before the pandemic, he lost at least 200,000 construction jobs.” That was a cut in response to Ruhle’s announcement about poor employment numbers stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump and manufacturing jobs

The changes in the total number of jobs across the country are caused by a number of different factors, the most important of which is the president. When it comes to manufacturing jobs, the claim that Trump lost “at least 200,000” jobs prior to the epidemic is simply not factual. This comes despite your desire to say that the president is responsible for both success and failure.

The economy had added 414,000 jobs from February 2017, which was at the start of his presidency, up to February 2020, before all this pandemic devastation This happened all long before the outbreak.

Manufacturing employment along with overall employment fell due to shutdown of a vast section of the economy during March and April 2020. Additionally, the shutdown resulted in the loss of 1.3 million jobs in the month of April of that year alone. Thereafter, the economy immediately began to add manufacturing employment, and the number of positions increased monthly from May to December 2020, except for January 2021, when this slight decrease in the number of positions continued through December.

The losses that happened in March and April of 2020 were not adequately compensated for by these profits, which were not large enough to compensate for them. As a consequence of this, the total number of jobs that have been eliminated during the four years that Trump has been in power has amounted to 178,000.

A campaign staffer referred to a comment Harris made about Trump earlier that day during an economic speech in Pennsylvania. This story sounded clichéd, but it was true. CNN reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on the false allegations Harris made Wednesday. During the course of the speech, she made the following statement: “During his presidency, our economy as a whole experienced a loss of almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs, beginning before the pandemic struck.”

To be sure, that is the situation. The decline in manufacturing jobs did begin before to the pandemic, despite the fact that the most dramatic decline in manufacturing employment experienced under Trump occurred during the pandemic. After having gained manufacturing employment under Trump before to that time, the economy saw a net loss of 48,000 manufacturing jobs during the course of the thirteen-month period beginning in February 2019 and ending in February 2020. This occurred after the economy had gained manufacturing jobs under Trump.

However, Harris’s campaign transmogrified even this right comment into a lie on social media and it is impossible to know whether it was done in bad faith or just could not get its head around the complexity of the issue. The campaign @KamalaHQ has uploaded a video of Harris’s statement on the Twitter account. The account then interpreted Harris’s statement as follows: “Vice President Harris: Almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost under Trump before the pandemic.”

In reality, she did not say that; rather, she emphasized that the employment losses started before the breakout of the pandemic. She did not say that all of the “almost 200,000” losses occurred before the outbreak. In addition to the previous assertion, this one is also not true.

Harris’ claim about the economy Trump ‘left us’

In response to Harris’ more ambiguous allegation that “Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers,” we will not provide a definitive verdict based on our studies into the facts about this matter.

Harris was the first president to preside over a net loss of jobs over a period of four years since Herbert Hoover, who left office during the Great Depression in 1933. According to the consultant to the Harris campaign, Harris was referring to Trump’s total employment record. Herbert Hoover was the last president to leave office during the Great Depression.

In spite of this, it is essential to emphasize that the unemployment rate was not at its highest point since the Great Depression during the month when the government of Biden and Harris emerged from the administration of Trump.

That’s something that needs to be drawn to your attention. While it had already peaked at 14.8% in April 2020—the highest since 1939—the unemployment rate had dropped to 6.4% by the time Biden became vice president in January 2021. This , though 14 in April 2020 It has increased by .8%.That number has been reached in 2014 already.