Republican commenter S.E. Cupp warns the U.S. economy is likely going to drag down President Donald Trump and his Republican Party leading into the midterms.
“Looking back, if we're going to assess the health of this administration next year, come midterms, we'll be looking back at Liberation Day,” Cupp told the panel of CNN’s “Table for Five.” “I think the economy is going to be the main story as we head toward midterms and the economy is not great. … Now we have polling that shows voters — including Trump's own — blame him for the economy.”
Cupp said Trump’s next big project is to manage the messaging and policy of his economic failures before it sinks the party.
“I think the most disastrous part of this economy was his tariffs,” said Cupp. “They're dumb. They're economically bad. They were never going to work. They were always a tax on the consumer. They're always going to have trickle up and trickle-down impacts. And the impacts have been, innumerable.”
She added that Trump also personally “worsened our relationship with allies, and that foreign, businesses and foreign states no longer want to invest in the United States,” outside of “bribery” situations manhandled by Trump.
“We're so volatile. It has led to, higher operating costs for businesses. So they're hiring less. It's made things more expensive. And now, as we saw a few weeks ago, Trump's bailing out farmers using taxpayer money,” said Cupp.
“That's the point I was going to make is that there is actually a difference between the kind of foreign investment that happens because the United States is a great market and a great place to do business and what Trump is doing, which is basically saying, ‘we're going to hold a gun to your head.’”
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