See Update at the bottom.
As if Donald Trump’s gaffe-tastic week of insanity and corruption weren’t bad enough, Friday morning brought the last jobs report before the midterms — and it wasn’t good.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the September Jobs Report, and it was deadly — a big miss on the expected 90,000 jobs created and a net negative 31,000 jobs when negative revisions are included, and the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth to 4.2 percent. Or here’s how Trump’s BLS put it:
Both nonfarm payroll employment (+29,000) and the unemployment rate (4.2 percent) changed little in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Tomato, tomahto.
The news coverage, however, was brutal across the board — even on Fox and Newsmax.
NEWSMAX: President Trump putting his economic agenda in particular to the forefront as he hits the campaign trail for these Republican candidates, which he believes could be a game changer come November. But a disappointing jobs report released this morning won’t be providing much help right there.
MS NOW: This jobs report, a big miss. You know, you heard all those other numbers and stats at the top there. What do Republicans do with this?
Guest: I don’t know, make a wish in a fountain? I mean, there’s just not much you can do a month out from the election.
Fox Business: We got the September jobs report earlier this morning. Edward Lawrence joining us from the White House. Not a great report, Edward.
CNBC’s Rick Santelli: Let’s look for the September jobs report, a bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see revisions, two-month revision down 60,000…
Average hourly earnings, now if we take it on a month-over-month basis, this is a big miss, big, big miss!
This comes after Trump cemented his status as a below-freezing president with a record-low 31 percent approval in the new Associated Press poll, after other polls showed him as low as 29 percent.
And all of this comes after a week in which Trump shocked even his critics with an incoherent and frankly mad-as-a-hatter Time Magazine interview, alienated some of his biggest fans, toured the country dropping ranty turds, and ostentatiously violated propaganda laws — to name just a few.
It also comes as the midterm picture has gone from really bad to even worse for Republicans, as Larry Sabato moved 11 races in the Democrats’ direction this week and Election Central has Democrats controlling 53 Senate seats if the midterms were held today.
And while it’s still close in many polls, James Talarico has led in all of the 10 most recent polls.
That explains why Trump was in Texas this week, as does his plea for voters to protect him from impeachment.
There’s still a month to go, but things don’t look great for Trump, and they don’t look to get any better!
Update: A new raft of New York Times/Siena University polls Just dropped with more bad news for Trump and the Republicans.
Democrats lead among likely voters in the Senate races in Texas and Alaska, two states that consistently vote Republican, the polls found. They have an edge in Ohio, which has been tilting rightward for years. Republicans have a slim edge in Iowa, and Democrats are neck-and-neck with Republicans in Kansas, which has not voted for a Democratic senator since 1932.
The Texas result is huge for a couple of reasons. This is the second straight gold standard poll in as many days in which Talarico is above 50%. He leads Paxton by 6, 51% to 45%. They were tied at 47% in the last NYT/Siena poll, in June.
But Greg Sargent had another key observation about Talarico’s run:
Important in new NYT polls: Talarico has pulled even w/ Paxton on immigration, while other Dem candidates are a bit behind.
As I argue, the Talarico Paradox is he's engaging on immigration more forcefully than other Ds despite running in Trumpy state. Polls suggest it's worked.
Things are looking even grimmer for Trump this morning. Let’s see how that plays out as he rallies in Ohio tonight.
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