{"id":107271,"date":"2024-09-26T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107271"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T10:48:58","slug":"fact-check-harris-makes-false-claim-about-trumps-record-on-manufacturing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107271","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Harris makes false claim about Trump\u2019s record on manufacturing jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Washington<\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ikscum000la3ql9fgk68ka@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Vice President Kamala Harris made a false claim about the jobs record of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/25\/politics\/kamala-harris-msnbc-interview\/index.html\">interview<\/a> on MSNBC on Wednesday evening.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5k0006356k9hpg75qw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Interviewer Stephanie Ruhle asked Harris what she thought about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/24\/politics\/polls-trump-harris-presidential-election\/index.html\">polls that show<\/a> most likely voters still think Trump is the better option on handling the economy.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l0007356kz29s52qa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris responded, \u201cWell, here\u2019s what I know in terms of the facts. Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers.\u201d After Ruhle interjected by saying it was the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that made the employment numbers bad, Harris continued, \u201cEven before the pandemic, he lost manufacturing jobs \u2013 by most people\u2019s estimates, at least 200,000.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l0008356kurg9ao80@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>Facts First:<\/strong> <em>Harris\u2019 claim is false. Trump presided over a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/CES3000000001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>gain of 414,000 US manufacturing jobs<\/em><\/a><em>, not a loss of \u201cat least 200,000,\u201d before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. And the loss for his entire presidency, start to finish, was 178,000 manufacturing jobs, not 200,000 or more as Harris said. <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cm1iluwka00043b5wr9s0j25x@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"trump-and-manufacturing-jobs\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n        Trump and manufacturing jobs<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000a356kigfumydr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            National job totals rise and fall for many reasons other than who the president is. Even if you\u2019re attributing all gains and losses to the president, though, it\u2019s just not true that Trump lost \u201cat least 200,000\u201d manufacturing jobs before the pandemic.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000b356kaonhbygw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            From the beginning of his presidency in January 2017 through February 2020, just before the pandemic crash, the economy <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/CES3000000001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added 414,000 manufacturing jobs<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000c356kq3mivzdh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Manufacturing employment, like overall employment, <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/MANEMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plummeted as much of the economy shut down in March and April 2020<\/a> \u2013 shedding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanmanufacturing.org\/press-release\/aam-statement-factories-lost-1-3-million-jobs-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.3 million jobs<\/a> in April 2020 alone. The economy then immediately resumed adding manufacturing jobs, increasing each month from May to December 2020 before a small loss in January 2021, but those gains were not enough to make up for the losses of March and April 2020. So the overall total for Trump\u2019s four years in office was a loss of 178,000 jobs.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000d356kf8ws7xqk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When CNN asked the Harris campaign for comment Wednesday on Harris\u2019 inaccurate claim, a campaign aide pointed to a similar but accurate remark Harris made about Trump in an economic speech in Pennsylvania earlier in the day. In the speech, she said, \u201cAcross our economy, all told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency \u2013 starting before the pandemic hit.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000e356kwvsz5prk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That is true. While the steepest manufacturing job losses under Trump occurred during the pandemic, the losses did <em>start<\/em> before the pandemic; the economy experienced a net loss of 48,000 manufacturing jobs over the 13-month period from February 2019 through February 2020 after gaining under Trump before then.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000f356k9lmhv21j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But whether intentionally or because it did not spot the nuance, Harris\u2019 own campaign turned even this correct claim into a false claim on social media. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1839037846939644000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> of the video of Harris\u2019 remark, the campaign\u2019s official @KamalaHQ account paraphrased her as follows: \u201cVice President Harris: Almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost under Trump before the pandemic.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1iktc5l000g356kilv9wqgp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            That\u2019s not what she actually said \u2013 she said the job losses <em>started<\/em> before the pandemic hit, not that the \u201calmost 200,000\u201d losses all occurred before the pandemic \u2013 and, again, that\u2019s not true.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ikus9q000o356kb0dqeypj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            We won\u2019t offer a firm fact check verdict on Harris\u2019 vaguer claim that \u201cDonald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at, for example, the employment numbers.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ikus9q000p356kvpb9gqhp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Harris campaign aide said Harris was referring to Trump\u2019s overall jobs record; he was the first president to preside over a net four-year loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover, who left office during Depression-era 1933.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm1ikus9q000q356k8x6bi7rf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But it\u2019s worth noting that the unemployment rate was not at its worst level since the Great Depression in the month the Biden-Harris administration took over from Trump. While the rate had <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/LNS14000000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skyrocketed to 14.8%<\/a> in April 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/LFU21000100&amp;series_id=LFU22000100&amp;from_year=1929&amp;to_year=1939&amp;periods_option=specific_periods&amp;periods=Annual+Data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest since 1939<\/a>, it had already declined to 6.4% in January 2021, the month of Biden\u2019s inauguration. That rate was <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/UNRATE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exceeded as recently as 2014.<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/25\/politics\/fact-check-harris-trumps-manufacturing-jobs\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Vice President Kamala Harris made a false claim about the jobs record of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107271\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}