Biden and Trump ask voters if they're 'better off' than they were 4 years ago. It's complicated
Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
HOUSTON (AP) — “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Rarely have voters' answers to that question been so complicated.
Former President Donald Trump asked the time-tested question of his supporters in all-caps Monday on his Truth Social platform. President Joe Biden did the same three times over this week during a trio of Texas fundraisers as he closed out a swing through the southwest.
Four years ago, the country was in the throes of a nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus, with surging joblessness and a cratering stock market. Now the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees are hurtling toward a rematch in which the virus for most Americans is but a traumatic memory, markets are up and unemployment is at or near record lows.
