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Trump Shouldn’t Fall for Queen Nancy Pelosi’s Gambit

Trump Shouldn’t Fall for Queen Nancy Pelosi’s Gambit
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds a press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 6, 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
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Judging from the fake news media’s collective primal scream this weekend, you would think the American economy were lying flat on its back in the intensive care unit. Yes, the economy has been battered in blue states that have masochistically shut down their hometown businesses. But in most red states that are keeping commerce flowing despite a second deadly wave of the virus, unemployment is typically below 6 percent.

Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore
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Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, chief economist at FreedomWorks, and co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. He served as a senior economic adviser to Donald Trump. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America.”
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