Tom Haraldsen
The City Journals
Political commentator and pundit James Carville said it best 32 years ago. When it comes to elections, he said, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
That quip from the 1992 presidential election between Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush may well have summed up this year’s race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. At least that’s the view that Robert Spendlove, senior economist for Zions Bank, shared with attendees at the Chamberwest Fall Conference on Nov. 13.
“It’s the largest reason why we saw the change last week,” he said, during an election where all seven “battleground states” threw their votes to Trump. “It explains the dramatic shift we saw. All those states flipped or went to Trump. The polls said it was a toss-up in many of Please log in to see the rest of this story.
