'The economy was in a tailspin!' Trump ally gets brutal reminder of life under Trump

A conservative commentator got a harsh reminder of life in the last year of Donald Trump's presidency.

Mark Lotter, the communications director for the right-wing America First Policy Institute and a former aide to vice president Mike Pence, appeared Friday morning on CNN, where he clashed with Democratic strategist Maria Cardona over the presidential election.

"A message underscoring what she needed to do in terms of the economy and immigration that she's leaning into it now," Cardona said, "and in fact, she's closing the gap on those things, on the economy, on immigration and which is what she needed to do, especially as a new candidate where a lot of Americans didn't really know her biography and her background, so I don't think it was so much a complete change in messaging. That messaging was always there underneath when the campaign talked about rights and freedoms, that was they're front and center."

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"In fact, I think it kind of puts a great bow tie on everything that Democrats have been talking about," she added, "because Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, he is a threat to our rights and freedoms, he is a threat to our economy. He is a threat to the common-sense, balanced approaches, the solutions-based problem-solving that Kamala Harris is offering, and that Donald Trump absolutely does not. In fact, he offers completely the opposite – chaos on every single one of the issues that Americans care about, and so Kamala Harris being able to talk about that, even with bringing in Jan. 6, I think underscores that stark difference and that stark contrast between those two candidates."

Lotter disagreed, saying that Harris should not be able to present herself as a candidate of change.

"What they're trying to do is turn the page from the book they wrote," he said. "The American people know that we had low inflation, a secure border, a safe world, and Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, changed all of it. You cannot rewrite the history of today because you are the ones who wrote it. This here's the problem. You, the American people may know that Kamala Harris doesn't have the answers."

Cardona pointed out that the Republican message – are you better off than you were four years ago? – was absurd.

"I think Americans understand that four years ago the economy was in a tailspin," she said. "The economy was in a tailspin because Donald Trump was an absolute failure in actually dealing with one of the biggest problems that we've had as a country in a century, which is the pandemic. President [Barack] Obama can remind people that the first couple of years of Trump, the economy was great because Obama handed him that amazing economy, and what Trump did with it was flushed it down the toilet."

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