If you support the trumppentz political ticket, 202 7488001. Undecided, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text at 202 7488003. Wj orocial media, cspan facebook. Com fan. The Washington Post headed into the weekend. Put it this way. The economy, biden says its terrible. Trump touts positive job numbers. Joe biden sought to remind the country that the economy remains in shambles. He is leaving the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Sameifferent takes on the economy preview the arguments both men will make on a topic that typically ranks top of mind for voters but has been eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic. Then said he will spend next three weeks contrasting his economic plans with trump. The president predicted more positive Economic Data in the future and a full recovery. Hads what the candidates to say about the most recent job numbers on friday. Saw largenths we declines in the Unemployment Rate. We are witnessing the fastest labor Market Recovery from any economic crisis in history by far. Thelast administration had slowest and weakest recovery. TheUnited States has seen smallest Economic Contraction of any major western nation and we are recovering at a much faster rate than any other nation. Business confidence is higher today in america than any other g7 or eu country. Highers confidence is than any of those countries. Think of that. Retail sales. Thats a very basic statistic. It not only recovered but reached the highest levels ever. Auto sales have surged during incredible 74 since their april low and are nearly back to their previrus levels and thats been a tremendous thing. Used cars and new cars have doing incredibly well. Homebuilder sentiment reached the highest level on record indicating that more highpaying construction jobs are on the way. The august jobs report came out this morning. And im grateful for everyone who found work again, who found a glimmer of hope that brings them back from the edge. Cause foris real concern as well. The pace of the job gains in august was slower than july. Layoffs more temporary turning into permanent layoffs. 28 Million People have filed for unemployment. After six months in the pandemic, we are less than halfway back to where we were american notlion getting their jobs back. Down 720,000 manufacturing jobs. Be the only may president in modern history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he took office. I talked to a lot of real working people. Ask them. They feel like they are being left behind. Ask them how do they feel about the economy coming back. You will find they dont feel it. Post writes that the economy has been the most potent vehicle for trump has his standing has weakened in recent months with voters consistently saying they trust the president more than his challenger on the economy. Biden and those close to his campaign believe there is room for the democratic nominee to shine on the issue if his exuberance about jobs ring hollow with voters lives. A breakdown on the unemployment statistics for august. The overall Unemployment Rate in the u. S. 8. 4 . For whites 7. 3. Hispanics 10. 5 . Black unemployment right now 13 . In terms of those 1. 3 7 million jobs, 238,000 of them were census workers. Retail 249,000. More than 50 are temporary in that professional and is in this area. 174. Re and Hospitality Education and health 147. Manufacturing 29,000 jobs added in august. First call on which president ial ticket you trust more. Good morning david. Which ticket do you trust more on the jobs issue . Its obvious trump has done a great job with the economy. Host what specifically has he done thats worked for you . Taxes andtting cutting what do you call it where you have so many regulations on jobs and everything. Host whats your own situation . Able to worken during the whole pandemic so its been good for me. If we would open up, the economy would do better. Its hard to blame it on trump when governors want to open up the states. I feel it would get a lot more jobs. Host what kind of work do you do . Caller work on appliances. Have a collar the support biden line. Why do you think joe biden and Kamala Harris are better paired to tackle the job situation . One, biden and harris tend to give more factual. You view the president saying the greatest, the most. It gets nauseating. One of the things i wanted to talk about was how trump seems loseuse credibility credibility with him when he says you are going to get more test, thats why you are going to have more cases. My moms a pediatrician and i sometimes work at her off this. You have more tests, you have a greater idea of how big this boat the scope of the problem is. Biden understands the virus needs to be controlled. Host youve brought in the pandemic. The earlier caller talked about governors around the country. What is your sense of how governors are performing now . Dont have enough knowledge in being able to understand how that works. Increasingly there was some toinformation video related i would like to apologize for host tell you what, call back after 30 days. You can bring up another topic. We are talking specifically about which candidate you think is better on the jobs. Trumpa on the support line. Caller hello. Im supporting jim trump the coronavirus, unemployment was the lowest and i still remember the summer of bidenry under obama administration. I didnt vote for trump last time, but i am this time. Show you this headline in the washington examiner. Temporary job losses are becoming more permanent. What do you make of that . Caller i still believe that trump has a better chance of handling this than biden. Job. Has never created a host more on the story we just talked about. Permanent job losses rose sharply in august according to the Labor Department and its monthly report. The story in the examiner says the number of permanent job million. Ord to 3. 4 the vast majority of job losses were classified as temporary. Workers were sent home. , returned tonario the jobs in a number of weeks. Both employers and employees would be spared the disruption when it comes to the relationship is broken. ,hat scenario is out of reach writes the examiner. Only 11. 6 million have been regained. Thats a story published in the washington examiner. Jake heflin is the writer of that piece. Next call from waterbury, connecticut. Calling in support of biden and harris. For a very simple fact, i dont the why this is a loss with rest of america. Why we dont get that biden would just be a better politician for the United States. He actually gets along with governors. He seems to speak for the people. Not just people in big states. All the people. He doesnt deny the issues we are dealing with. The last caller spoke about trump. Like his bankt account was able to ride on what obama had already done. Give him credit for keeping us consistent, but his denial of what covid has done has actually been more detrimental than anything else. Host are you working now . Caller i am not working, i have been furloughed since june 6. I work in new york city in midtown. Im a data analyst and i do support. Unfortunately, im thinking that new york city we were trying to open up and my company had to close because they had been paying rent on eight floors of that they had been paying rent on. Gotten any aid . I started in july. Host jim is calling from little valley. Caller how are you this morning . Just a little tired of the democratic rhetoric about how biden i didnt vote for obama. For eight years. Trumpvoted for donald because i took the lesser of two evils and i will vote for him again because hes done more for thancountry in four years obama, bush, clinton, bush, reagan. What one or two significant things can you point to . Ofler he has brought a Lot Companies back to the United States from overseas in china and other places. Hes a good businessman, but hes not a politician. Thats why everybody on the democratic side is after him. This thing about russian collusion, if thats the case i want the Democratic Party prosecuted for the russian collusion. Trump, hes ignorant. If you pick on him, hes going to pick back. You insult him, hes going to insult back. Thing. E same primaries,during the once he was the main candidate, if they got in they were going to drag their feet on everything and cause him trouble after trouble so he would deal lame duck president. Theyve tried. Croaks in the Democratic Party and im talking about the lucy, schumer and biden and nadler. Harris did nothing for the state of california. I refuse to let him back out and i voted democrat. I voted republican. Trump biden asking which candidate will be better on jobs. Lynn writes on facebook that biden will be better, just like he helped us get out of bushs mess. Biden is pushing for a minimum wage raise to 15 an hour. Sam from bakersfield says i think the candidate that has actually had a job is the best choice. Trump is never worked a day in his life. Writes the covering of owners regulations has been huge in stimulating job growth. Forbes and usa today have put thether a snapshot of what biden and trump plans would look like. They also writes that he would spend 300 billion on new research and development primarily in u. S. Technologies investing in Clean Energy Jobs as part of biden jobs plan and registration for by american products. President trump is touting more cuts to taxes and regulation,. Mazing america tax credit possible added tariffs against china. Just part of the economic and jobs proposal the candidates have put forward. Pasadena,calling from california. Caller i think biden has a much broader way of looking at it. Trump is looking at it from a very narrow perspective that has benefited certain people and trump came in talking about infrastructure and this. I think this is something we seriously have to look at as a country and i think biden and harris are the ones to do this. They get along better with people. With trumpisagree trying to cut your legs out from under you. ,o Work Together as a country we need most of the wpa type thinking thats going to go on because before covid hit, people were working two and three jobs to get by. They were working substandard jobs. There was so much going on, we had people working in the fields now. Trump wants to build walls and we have workers in the california field smoking covid and dying. And vegetables for the whole country, everything comes from california. Its a big picture. Its a really big picture and its going to take someone that has a big open mind who is not trump, who is not heads. Pens. Pence. Its going to take people work totogether in synchronicity make it that are not go back on again. Go forward from where we are now. Int we go to brilliant Colorado Springs. Why do support President Trump on jobs . Caller the main reason is because i dont trust his past relations with china and i feel china may have some dirt on him and hunter and i dont believe he will stand up to china to bring any of our manufacturing jobs back to this country and i dont believe he has it in him to stand up to these countries and do whats right for the American People and bring our jobs back here. Is the Economic Situation in Colorado Springs and for you personally . Caller im doing fairly well. Im retired but i do jobs now and then for people. Cut off sinceof the corona thing. As far as the local economy, things are picking up. Go out. Re starting to we have other states not opening up paid know what the science says. Wear our mask, practice safe distancing and wash your hands. Governors in certain states just are refusing and that is keeping the economy down now. Host how is the economy playing in the Big Senate Race . Caller they said hickenlooper is up by nine points against cory gardner. That because about hickenlooper didnt do much for this state. It is what it is, we are basically ran by democrats north of Colorado Springs and you got denver and boulder and those towns and they are the ones that control the vote here in this state. Host thanks for calling. Michelle from upper marlboro, maryland. What do you have to say this morning about jobs . Caller i had historically voted as an independent. In maryland you have to register with one party or the other to vote. Dem. E gop and i am voting for the biden harris ticket because im an analyst and one of the things is when you are analyzing any issue, you have to look at the metrics. You have the jobs report that comes out. Everyone looks at their own situation and sees, do i have a job. Thats kind of a Retail Metric thats out there. Before covid19 hit, we could see the economy was artificially popped up propped up by the tax cuts. Hit and there are to the many facets impact to the economy if anyone could look at rick adelmans , he talked about facets to our state and local government and all across the to real Social Security estate, it was just devastating. Those are the real metrics and we really have to look at. Not in any is fashion in a healthy state. I also dont trust trump to really govern. We are in this state because he doesnt govern. The role of a president is to set an environment in this country where we can thrive, the economy can boom. Before covid we were propped up artificially. Now i believe is a lack of governing. Devastation economically. I dont trust him for the future. Whats the next thing. To get us out of this place he me, imu stick with going to do this. You are president now and what are you doing. I dont trust him to be able to govern us through that. Host here is the voice of larry kudlow from friday. Talked about the economy. Host we are in a selfsustaining recovery. High demand, increased production and manufacturing along with decline in inventories give us a tremendous momentum going into the second half of the year. Quarterreckon the third will be at least 20 growth. Good number. S a the whole second half and next year provided that economic policies remain progrowth. I simplylicy front, dont understand the other side wanting a 4 trillion tax deep pandemic a contraction. I believe the vast majority of economists. I dont care if you are a keynesian or supplysider, you dont just raise taxes by this amount. 4 trillion really picking the pockets of taxpayers who are returning to work now and need all the resources they can get. The profession should have complete consensus on that. And thinkte surprised that is a potential obstacle and people are beginning to speak about that. Factually the numbers are coming in very positively. Theres a lot of up missing going on. More work to be done. Host mike patton from forbes writes this. Policy. S economics and unemployment came within one percentage point of the postworld war ii low of 2. 5 . One can certainly argue the economic and Public Health policy could have been in the past few months, the pandemic likely would have wiped out the job gains during the Trump Presidency no matter what policies were enacted. From hot springs, arkansas. You are calling on the trump line. Biden the only two jobs ever did was his career sons job job and his with china and the russians to make millions. Those are the only two jobs that he has created and as far as hadp is concerned, he has to fight every inch of the way to get rid of all the bad policies. Promises thathis he made to the United States citizens. Coronavirus was brought on by the we cant blame anyone but them and we cannot bailout every citizen in the u. S. , we dont have that kind of money to do that. Dont put any blame on trump. Put the blame where it belongs. Concerned en is thats the way i stand with him. I have seen what obama and he did. He did nothing and he can even talk. Host lets move to manchester, pennsylvania. Bill is calling on the undecided line. Give us your mindset. What do you do in manchester . I am on disability and fortunately i have had not to deal with the pandemic as far as financials. Does, mymily that sisters are teachers and the whole family works. My opinion on it is, my problem begins abouts it when to 10 years ago couldats and republicans not get together and get the job done. Then we ran into the problem where all of the Financial Markets for and biden and obama took over and they had to deal with the recovering economy the whole time they were in office. Trump and hemes has the previous problem where the republicans were not letting the democrats do anything and the democrats tried to do , biden and obama did not get anything done except for a bad insurance problem, then along comes trump and he brings the companiesll back and gets the jobs going and takes care a lot of the International Problems we were having. The main thing i am wondering about is, the last 30 to 40 years, how Many American lives were lost because of oil . Now trump has made america export oil for the First Time Ever as far as i know. On one hand i dont like trump as a person. Nobody can blame him for the pandemic, he is a person. Hand, biden says he is going to do this and that and the other thing. Trump is already doing it, he is not doing it the same ways he would. You dont know who to go with because on one hand you have somebody nobody likes and on the other hand you have somebody that you dont know if they can do the job or not. Bill callingce of from manchester, pennsylvania. Just under half an hour left in this first part of the program asking whether you think the trump or biden ticket would do better on the jobs issue. Here is a recent poll, this is their august poll conducted a few weeks ago. Trump pulls a doubledigit advantage as of a couple weeks ago on which candidate would do a better job handling the economy. 49 picking trump versus 38 siding with biden. The source is an nbc news wall street journal poll there. Lindsey writes on twitter this morning, when it comes to deregulating everything for shortterm gains trump is the cho