The President declared that even Americans who 'hate him' would have to elect him, or the stock market will collapse
President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 15, 2019. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Donald Trump doubled down on his economic argument for reelection Thursday night amid increasing concerns about a recession, declaring that even Americans who hate him “have no choice” but to vote for him because otherwise the stock market will collapse.
With markets already wobbling over fears of a slowdown amid an escalating trade and currency war with China, Trump flew to a battleground state to defend policies that are rattling many businesses and investors and to insist that he will prolong the country’s decadelong economic expansion into a second term.
“You have the best unemployment, you have the most successful state in the history of your state and the history of our country,” he told a campaign rally in Manchester. “And then you’re going to vote for somebody else? Oh great. ‘Let’s vote for Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. We have the best numbers we’ve ever had — let’s vote for somebody else.’ ”
Even as he derided Warren, a senator from next-door Massachusetts and a Democratic presidential candidate, with a racial slur, Trump acknowledged the deep antipathy many voters have for him but made the argument that they should put aside their distaste for their own economic well-being.
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