Trump Touts Surprise Jobs Calls on States to End Coronavirus Lockdowns
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We ran the numbers: There are 1722 news articles covering this topic. 52% (891) are left leaning, 37% (632) center, 12% (199) right leaning.
On Friday, President Trump celebrated an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate, which dropped 13.3 percent from 14.7 percent in April. While left-leaning articles highlight President Trump’s use of Friday’s numbers as a life raft for his reelection campaign, right-leaning articles highlight that Trump said significant progress was also being made in the development of coronavirus vaccines.
The Washington Post published a left-leaning article highlighting that President Trump grasped onto Friday’s lower than expected unemployment numbers as a life raft for his reelection campaign. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden argued that the depth of the nation’s economic devastation is directly attributable to the Trump administration’s failures to manage the pandemic.
A centrist article by The Hill highlights that Trump tweeted, “THESE NUMBERS ARE INCREDIBLE,” and that the new jobs report had Democrats “worried again.” However, some economics have described the White House’s predictions as overly optimistic.
A right-leaning article by Fox News reports that Trump said that significant progress was also being made in the development of coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics. Trump said in a statement Friday, “We’ll go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world, nothing close.”
From the left
Trump clings to jobs numbers as a campaign life raft — and as a race-relations plan
Washington Post