Source: CounterPunch
by Nathaniel St. Clair
“Bill Clinton’s strategist, Jim Carville, coined the quip ‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ to explain his successful strategy for winning the 1992 U.S. presidential election against incumbent George H. W. Although Carville advised Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, he apparently didn’t share that advice with Harris. In Harris’s defense, as one pundit explained, any incumbent president, and by extension, the Vice President, would have been blamed for the hammering our economy suffered by Covid’s tailwind. Inflation was a scourge that hurt Harris as it did for two previous presidents, Ford and Carter, who lost after serving one term due to significant inflation.” (11/11/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/11/trump-its-the-economy-stupid/