WASHINGTON DC, Nov 8 — In an online post on the morning of November 5, election day, Steve Moore – economic advisor in the Trump election campaign – wrote: “Some complain that because we’ve had elections where the candidate who wins the popular vote doesn’t win the election, the system is antidemocratic. I would argue these occasional outcomes only make the Electoral College all the more indispensable in keeping our country intact. The system isn’t perfect, and something needs to be done about the risks of ‘unfaithful electors’ who could change the election outcome. But just as in tennis, where the player who wins the most points doesn’t always win the match, the current voting rules help protect our democracy, not undermine it.”
Moore is coauthor of a new book, “The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again.” He joined Matt Kane recently at the Association of Mature American Citizens for an interview for AMAC’s Better For America podcast.
Moore noted that he wrote the book with Arthur Laffer, “who is probably the most famous economist in the world today. He was Reagan’s chief economist. He worked with Maggie Thatcher. He helped many governors and senators and has been working with Donald Trump now for the last eight years as I have.” Moore went on to note that “the book was really motivated by the fact that we wanted to have a very objective, concrete comparison of the job that Trump did when he was president. When we started writing the book, of course, it looked like Joe Biden was going to be the nominee and then they did their switcheroo and they substituted Kamala Harris. But, she says, she can’t think of anything she’d be doing differently, it’s pretty clear that if you liked, Joe Biden’s first four years in office, you’re going to love Kamala Harris. Actually think Kamala Harris would be worse. She had the most liberal voting record in the entire United States Senate, even more liberal than Bernie Sanders. You can’t go further to the left than Kamala Harris. She’s no centrist or moderate. She’s a radical leftist from San Francisco.”
Kane asked Moore, when people in government such as Obama and others set these low expectations, is that due to incompetence and a lack of vision on their end? Moore said that “if you intentionally wanted to downgrade the American economy, you’d let in10 million illegal immigrants. You’d lose control of your border. You’d lose control of your energy security. You’d lose control of your currency by running up massive deficits. You’d let crime run on the streets and that has all happened in America. I’m just one man’s opinion, but the official data shows that Americans are right to be concerned. Just last week a new national opinion poll found that two out of three Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. I laugh when you get these white, rich liberals who talk about, gee, why are people so unhappy? Biden’s been so great for the super-rich like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other rich liberals who don’t care if the inflation goes up by 5, 6, 8%. It doesn’t affect them whatsoever. But if you’re living on an income of $50,000 to $100,000 and you’re trying to pay your bills and everything’s 20 percent more expensive, that makes you poor. That makes you feel much worse. It makes you financially stressed out. And that’s what’s happened right now in America.”
Kane asked if Harris wins the election, will it likely result in a new, painful and stressful administration. Moore said that “Kamala is not even able to answer the most basic questions like what are you gonna do that’s different from Joe Biden? Nothing? And so people are aware that Trump knows what he’s talking about but Kamala really doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She doesn’t care and I think that when Trump gets in, as I expect he will, I think there’s going to be a new bounce in the step of the economy. People are going to realize that this guy’s on our side and he did a lot of great things. I know some people don’t like Trump’s behavior and some of the things he says and, as I said, I don’t always agree with Trump on every position. But he’s a businessman and he does know how to make things work. As for Kamala Harris, I guess it’s still in doubt whether she worked for one year at McDonald’s. But that would be the extent of her business experience. She’s been a politician or a lawyer her whole life and basically being a lawyer in the government has really been her job and that doesn’t prepare you well for understanding how to meet a payroll? How to grow a business? How to make a profit? How to put people to work? How to make America more competitive?
John Grimaldi served on the first non-partisan communications department in the New York State Assembly and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Priva Technologies, Inc. He has served for more than thirty years as a Trustee of Daytop Village Foundation, which oversees a worldwide drug rehabilitation network.