President Joe Biden claimed during a speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night that the Biden-Harris administration has overseen a booming economy and low inflation, but the data show that the U.S. economy and inflation are worse now than they were during the Trump administration.  “We’ve had one of the most extraordinary four years of progress ever, period. When I say ‘we’ I mean Kamala and me. Just think about it, COVID no longer controls our lives. We got from economic crisis to the strongest economy in the entire world,” Biden told the crowd of Democrats in Chicago. “A record 16 million new jobs, record small business growth, record-high stock market, record-high 401ks, wages up, and inflation down and continuing to go down.”  The 16 million new jobs number cited by Biden is skewed by the COVID pandemic since many of those jobs were the natural result of the economy returning after lockdown measures were lifted nationwide. Under President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the unemployment rate has gone down as the U.S. economy recovered from the COVID lockdowns, but the latest unemployment numbers show that more Americans are struggling to find work now than before COVID led to many companies shutting down.  Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The civilian unemployment rate has slowly increased over the past few months, hitting 4.3% in July. In February 2020, the last full month before the COVID pandemic hit the U.S., the unemployment rate was at 3.5%.  The president’s boasting about wages going up under his term is accurate. Average hourly earnings have risen by 17% under Biden compared to 15% under Trump, but what Biden left out is that hourly earnings increases went further under Trump’s economy since they outpaced inflation much more strongly, Forbes reported. Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that Americans saved around 8.7% of their monthly paycheck under Trump compared to just 5.9% under Biden. Biden also pointed to a lowering inflation rate, claiming it shows his administration has been good for the U.S. economy. While the inflation rate has cooled to 2.9% from a staggering 9.1% in June of 2022, it remains higher than where it was during most of the Trump administration.  While Americans face higher inflation and a rising unemployment rate, grocery and gas prices have also skyrocketed under Biden and Harris’ watch, a fact even the vice president acknowledged during a rally last week.  “We all know that prices went up during the pandemic when the supply chains shut down and failed, but our supply chains have now improved, and prices are still too high. A loaf of bread costs 50% more today than before the pandemic. Ground beef is up almost 50%,” Harris said.  Along with bread and ground beef, dairy products such as milk, cheese, and butter have also jumped more than 30% in price since 2020, according to Yahoo Finance. Eggs are up 54%, and cereal has gone up 28% on average across the country. From 2019 to 2023, food prices overall rose by 25%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Gas prices have also increased during the Biden-Harris administration, hitting a national average of $4.09 per gallon in 2022, nearly $2.00 higher than the average in 2020. The current national average for a gallon of gas is at $3.50, still higher than at any point during the Trump administration.  On top of groceries and gas, Americans are dealing with high interest rates and an unfriendly housing market as the prices of homes across the country have continued to rise under Biden’s watch. Interest rates for a 30-year mortgage were at 2.78% when Biden took over in January 2021 and shot up to 7.79% by October 2023. They are now at 6.49%, according to the latest data from Freddie Mac.

As Democrats attempted to turn the first night of the Democratic National Convention into a loving farewell for President Joe Biden, CNN anchor Chris Wallace reminded viewers why the president was giving a speech on Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination instead of accepting his own. Biden gave the keynote address on Monday night, addressing a crowd that held up “We (heart) Joe” signs. Throughout his speech, Biden was interrupted by chants of “We love Joe.” The show of appreciation for the 81-year-old commander-in-chief didn’t impress Wallace, however, who told CNN viewers that Biden “was basically forced out” by fellow Democrats. “The word that everybody is using to describe tonight is ‘bittersweet.’ It’s just bitter,” Wallace said. “The fact of the matter, I’m not saying Joe Biden is bitter, but, you know, it’s like you’ve been thrown out a window, and as you’re falling, you go ‘Gee, it’s nice out here.'” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “There’s going to be a lot of talk tonight about how generous it was of him and and selfless of him. He was basically forced out by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries,” he added. “And I suspect even the fact that there has been this surge of enthusiasm since he left and Kamala Harris took his place — that’s got to be pretty tough, too. You got thrown out of a window, and everybody’s applauding the person who’s now in the room.” Chris Wallace throws cold water on the “Selfless Joe Biden” DNC charade: “He got thrown out of a window…he was forced out by Nancy Pelosi.” A fleeting moment of mostly accurate analysis from Wallace: “The word that everybody is using to describe tonight is bittersweet. It’s… pic.twitter.com/wWhia8I7fY — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 19, 2024 Biden dropped out on July 21 after many in the media and the Democratic Party urged him to step aside following his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump. After announcing he would end his campaign, Biden was reportedly upset with fellow powerful Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. “Biden views Pelosi as ‘ruthless’ and willing to set aside long-term relationships in order to keep her party in power — and, most importantly, to prevent Republican nominee Trump from returning to the White House,” a senior White House official told POLITICO’s Playbook. “That’s who she has always been.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI On Monday, Pelosi was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if she had spoken to Biden since he ended his campaign, the former House Speaker declined to confirm or deny, instead telling Tapper, “Sometimes you have to take a punch for the children. I did what I had to do.” “My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign,” she added. WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper: Have you talked to Joe Biden? Nancy Pelosi: “I did what I had to do. … My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign.” pic.twitter.com/ao5e7lwmGP — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 20, 2024

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) began yelling during her speech at the DNC on Monday as she seethed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “We know Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing palms of his Wall Street friends,” she claimed. “And I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.” Many people on social media were quick to point out that Ocasio-Cortez, who claims she is a fighter for the working class, was the primary reason that Amazon decided to cancel its plans to build a massive headquarters in New York City that would have brought tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars a year in revenue. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Senior Trump campaign official Tim Murtaugh responded to the clip of AOC on X: “Oh yes, you can see how she’s always filled with joy. Watching AOC with the sound off is the best. She looks furious all the time.” WATCH: AOC: “Trump would sell this country for a dollar to line his own pockets.” Biden: *”defrauded the United States to enrich his family” according to the @HouseGOP report released this morning* pic.twitter.com/oK7CZBw5Kt — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 20, 2024 AOC’s remarks came on the same day that the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee released a joint report that concluded there was “overwhelming evidence” that President Joe Biden took part in his family’s foreign business dealings by using his public office “to enrich his family.” The report further alleged that the Biden family and its associates were paid more than $27 million by foreign individuals or entities since 2014. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in his conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden,” the report states. It adds, “Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions.” House Republicans state in their report that in 2014, then-Vice President Biden attended a dinner with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina. Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton.

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