离选举日只有18天了，民主党全国委员会正在攻击总统唐纳德·特朗普在他的签名问题上，经济，这是一系列备忘录中的第一份，意在为总统做“结案陈词”。
“简而言之，唐纳德·特朗普是现代史上最糟糕的就业总统，”由民主党全国委员会作战室分发的备忘录称。“尽管特朗普声称我们厌倦了‘赢’，但他未能兑现承诺，美国工人为此付出了代价。他继承了一个强大的经济，并将其发展到了谷底。”
民主党人认为，随着竞选进入最后阶段——超过2100万选民已经投了他们的选票——特朗普一再未能清楚地表明他为什么应该连任四年。该党表示，特朗普“有一个事实问题”，因此根据民意调查，通过这些备忘录，他们将“突出特朗普不能接受的这些真相”，从总统竞选中最前沿的问题开始，选民认为他在这个问题上做得最好。
在全国努力应对冠状病毒造成的经济市区之际，特朗普提出了他是领导国家复苏的候选人的理由，指出该国大流行前的经济繁荣是证据。
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2020年10月15日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在北卡罗来纳州格林维尔举行的“让美国再次伟大”集会上发表讲话。
“明年，如果我们没有人去增税，把他们想增的税翻两番，把所有的东西都杀光，我们的经济明年将会是惊人的...周四晚上，特朗普在全国广播公司的一次市政厅会议上说:“我们拥有我国历史上最伟大的经济。
总统将该国目前的经济衰退归咎于病毒爆发之初发生的大范围封锁，但他表示，现在事情正在重新开放，经济正在“迅速复苏”。
但民主党的备忘录反驳了总统的说法，称他是“现代史上最糟糕的就业总统”。
特朗普竞选发言人在一份声明中称该备忘录为“不真诚的攻击”...来获得廉价的政治分数。”
特朗普竞选团队的国家副新闻秘书萨曼莎·扎格(Samantha Zager)表示:“事实上，民主党全国委员会知道乔·拜登是一位毫无生气的候选人，他主持了自大萧条以来最慢的经济复苏，所以编造虚假攻击比捍卫50年的失败记录更容易。”“特朗普总统在冠状病毒袭击之前建立了世界上最大的经济，他已经在做了。拜登和民主党人感到不安的是，总统在五个月内已经取得了奥巴马-拜登政府两年多来取得的成就。”
周四标志着连续第30周的历史高失业率。近两个月来，新申请失业救济人数保持稳定，尽管处于较高水平，但本周新申请人数有所上升，目前仍有2500多万美国人在联邦和州计划下领取失业救济金。
备忘录强调，失业率是总统选举前的最高水平。虽然这一比例为7.9%，但并没有明显高于2012年大选时的水平，当时的比例为7.8%，选民仍在重新选举前总统巴拉克·奥巴马。
这份备忘录引用了美国劳工统计局(Bureau of Labor Statistics)的数据，称在特朗普的第一个任期内，超过16万个制造业就业岗位流失，并指出这将如何影响总统在2016年赢得的关键战场州，但民主党人希望在这一周期占据主导地位。
根据BLS的数据，自特朗普2017年1月上任以来，密歇根州已经失去了5.5万个制造业就业岗位;俄亥俄州损失了2.65万;宾夕法尼亚损失了2.5万;威斯康辛州已经损失了9200人。
最近的民调显示，拜登在密歇根州和宾夕法尼亚州以较大优势领先，而希拉里·克林顿在2016年仅以微弱优势落败。在威斯康辛州，民调显示拜登有所上升，但幅度没有那么大。俄亥俄州的民调显示，这是一个未知数，但特朗普在上一个周期以8个百分点的优势赢得了该州。
备忘录还涉及特朗普执政期间汽车行业受到的影响。
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2020年10月15日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在迈阿密与一群佛罗里达选民一起参加了一小时的NBC新闻市政厅论坛。
备忘录称:“特朗普承诺汽车制造商将从海外迁回——而不是数万名汽车工人在他的任期内失业。”
根据BLS的统计，自特朗普上任以来，这个行业已经失去了35，000多个工作岗位。
特朗普本周将闪电般地前往战场州，在短暂中断后召集支持者，他在冠状病毒检测呈阳性后被迫住院。
周四在爱荷华州宣传他为农民所做的事情时，他谈到了中国，他说中国“针对”中西部地区和从事农业的美国人。
“当他们把目标对准爱荷华州、这个国家的农民、农场主和其他人时，我说，‘不，不，你不能这么做。不不你不能。“我对所有商品都征收25%的关税，”他说从来没有一位总统为农民和牧场主、为农业带、为爱荷华州做得更多。从来没有一位总统比我做得更好。"
但在他们的备忘录中，民主党人表示，“特朗普的贸易战对制造商、农民和消费者造成了严重破坏”，他与中国的贸易协议并不是总统所说的那样。
备忘录称:“特朗普与中国达成了第一阶段贸易协议，该协议未能解决最初引发他的贸易战的结构性问题，甚至没有消除它造成的损害。”“特朗普没有什么可展示的，他的贸易战给工人、农民和消费者带来了痛苦。”
DNC hits Trump over the economy, job losses in first 'closing arguments' memo
With just 18 days until Election Day, the Democratic National Committee is hitting PresidentDonald Trumpover his signature issue, the economy, with the first in a series of memos meant to make the president's "closing argument" for him.
"Put simply, Donald Trump is the worst jobs president in modern history," the memo, distributed by the DNC's War Room, states. "Despite claims that we’d get tired of 'winning,' Trump failed to deliver on his promises and American workers paid the price. He inherited a strong economy and ran it into the ground."
The Democrats argue that as the campaign enters the final stretch -- more than 21 million votershave already casttheir ballots -- Trump has repeatedly failed to drive home his final pitch for why he should be reelected to another four years in office. The party says Trump "has a facts problem," so with these memos, they will "highlight these truths Trump can’t accept," starting with the issue that has been at the forefront of the president's campaign and one that voters believe he does the best job on, according to polls.
As the nation grapples with an economic downtown caused by the coronavirus, Trump has made the case that he is the candidate to lead the country to its recovery, pointing to the country's pre-pandemic economic boom as evidence.
President Donald Trump speaks at a "Make America Great Again" rally on Oct.15, 2020, in Greenville, NC.
"Next year, if we don't have somebody that raises taxes and quadruples taxes which they want to do and kills everything, our economy is going to be phenomenal next year... We had the greatest economy in the history of our country," Trump said during a town hall on NBC Thursday night.
The president blamed the country's current economic downturn on the widespread lockdowns that took place at the beginning of the virus outbreak, but he says now things are reopening and the economy is "coming back very fast."
But the Democrats' memo counters the president's narrative, pegging him as "the worst jobs president in modern history."
In a statement, a Trump campaign spokesperson called the memo a "disingenuous attack... to score cheap political points."
"In reality, the DNC knows Joe Biden is a lackluster candidate who presided over the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, so it’s easier to make up false attacks than defend a 50-year record of failure," said Samantha Zager, deputy national press secretary for the Trump campaign. "President Trump built the greatest economy in the world before coronavirus hit and he’s already doing it again. Biden and the Democrats are just upset that the President has already achieved in five months what took the Obama-Biden administration over two years."
Thursday marked the 30th straight week of historically high unemployment claims. New jobless claims had remained steady, albeit at a high level, for nearly two months, but this week the number of new claims rose, and there are still more than 25 million Americans currently receiving unemployment benefits under federal and state programs.
The unemployment rate is the highest it's ever been ahead of a presidential election, the memo highlights. While true, at 7.9%, the rate is not significantly higher than what it was going into the 2012 election, when it was 7.8% and voters still reelected former President Barack Obama.
The memo, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data, says that under Trump's first term, over 160,000 manufacturing jobs were lost, and it homes in how that's impacted key battleground states that the president won in 2016 but that Democrats are hoping to dominate in this cycle.
According to BLS data, Michigan has lost 55,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office in January 2017; Ohio has lost 26,500; Pennsylvania has lost 25,000; and Wisconsin has lost 9,200.
Recent polling has shown Biden leading by wide margins in Michigan and Pennsylvania, which Hillary Clinton only narrowly lost in 2016. In Wisconsin, polls show Biden up, but not by nearly as much. Polling out of Ohio indicates it's a toss up, but Trump won that state by eight points last cycle.
The memo also tackles how the auto industry has been affected under Trump.
President Donald Trump takes part in a live one-hour NBC News town hall forum with a group of Florida voters in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020.
"Trump promised auto manufacturers would move back from overseas -- instead tens of thousands of auto workers lost their jobs on his watch," the memo says.
According to BLS statistics, over 35,000 jobs have been lost in this industry since Trump took office.
Trump is blitzing to battleground states this week, rallying for supporters after the brief hiatus he was forced to take after testing positive for coronavirus and then being hospitalized.
While in Iowa Thursday touting what he says he's done for farmers, he took on China, which he said "targeted" the Midwest state and Americans working in the agriculture industry.
"When they targeted Iowa and the farmers of this country and ranchers and others I said, 'No, no you can't do that. No, no you can't. I put a 25 percent tariff on everything," he said. "There has never been a president who has done more for farmers and ranchers, for the Farm Belt, for Iowa. There's never been a president that's even come close to what I've done."
But in their memo, the Democrats say "Trump’s trade war wreaked havoc on manufacturers, farmers and consumers," and his trade deal with China isn't what the president chalks it up to be.
"Trump settled for a phase one trade deal with China that failed to address the structural issues that sparked his trade war in the first place, and didn’t even undo the damage it caused," the memo states. "Trump has nothing to show for his trade war that inflicted pain on workers, farmers, and consumers."
