In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston writes that “this election will be won or lost on the basis of who voters believe will deliver a stronger, more stable economy.”
While Republicans had produced a better economy than Obama’s, their decision to emphasize other issues for the party’s closing argument [in 2018] cost them seats.
That was the GOP’s mistake. Ironically, for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, their mistake was looking to Barack Obama for economic policy advice. Their post-pandemic stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan, was nothing less than a page out of Obama’s playbook — on steroids — and just about as effective.
Read the full piece here.