As polls show Joe Biden’s re-election is in peril because of the public’s negative opinion of how he’s handled the economy, TV viewers woke up Friday morning to a round of happy talk telling them that, despite what they might think, the economy is really quite spectacular.
“The economy is in solid shape. Job growth is steady and inflation is cooling,” ABC’s Elizabeth Schulze exclaimed on Good Morning America. Over on Today, NBC’s Tom Costello cheered that travel will be cheaper this Christmas: “Gas prices now below $3 a gallon in more than 20 states, so if you are planning to hit the road for the holidays, you’ll have company.”
Earlier this week, NBC’s Christine Romans declared that Americans who told pollsters that the economy is bad are just wrong. “So people say the economy, you know, sucks,” Romans argued on Wednesday’s…
