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Trump Hopes Economy Will Prevail Over Other Issues in 2020

Steve Herman

   WHITE HOUSE - "It's the economy, stupid" has been a catchphrase of U.S.
   presidential politics since the 1992 campaign, when Bill Clinton
   unseated incumbent George H.W. Bush.

   Nearlythreedecades later, U.S. President Donald Trump is hoping that
   simple message in 2020 will help foil his eventual Democratic Party
   challenger.

   Trump -- in tweets, at political rallies and in remarks to reporters --
   constantly emphasizes the performance of the U.S. economy, stock market
   surges, low unemployment rates and his tax cuts to boast he is doing a
   great job as president.

   Economists and political analysts are divided on whether that message
   will enable the incumbent to stay in office beyond January 2021.

   Culture war, partisan split

   Ever since Clinton,"we've all kind of assumed that should be true. And
   I think for the most part, it is," saidRyanMcMaken, senior editor and
   economist at the Mises Institute, a politics and economics research
   group in Alabama. He cautioned, though,that Trump finds himself on one
   side of a culture war that his predecessors did not have to confront,
   as well as a deep partisan divide on consumer confidence.

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