Democrats worried that Trump economy will hurt their chances in 2020

Politico:

Republicans have long believed that if only the economy held up, President Donald Trump could win a second term.

Following another spate of positive economic news — and without a cohesive economic message of their own — many Democrats are starting to fear he might.

Anxiety on the left reached new heights last week, with the government reporting that the nation’s economy had grown at an unexpectedly fast pace in the first quarter of the year. While Trump took credit for the surging economy, Democratic presidential contenders were immersing themselves in the Mueller report and debating whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote.

By Thursday, prodded by former Vice President Joe Biden, they were revisiting the violence at a white supremacist rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. In his own campaign announcement video, Biden did not explicitly mention jobs or the economy once.

“We don’t really have a robust national message right now” on the economy, said Celinda Lake, a leading Democratic strategist and pollster. “We will tend to talk about things like paid leave and equal pay — and those things are all very popular policies. But they don’t add up to an economic message that is robust enough to win the presidency and beat Donald Trump, who talks about a very robust economic policy.”
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To compound their problems they have opposed some of the very policies that have led to the robust economic growth such as tax cuts and hard nose trading policies pushed by Trump.  The Trump economy has been especially kind to blacks, Hispanics and Women lifting millions out of poverty and dependency and reducing the unemployment numbers for these groups to the lowest figures on record..  Then there is the fact that Democrats had argued that such results were impossible during the 2016 campaign.  That should also hurt their credibility on the issue.