No. Very bad economic numbers in August before a midterm is not a cunning political optics move.

I'm surprised by the conspiratorial comments here like this is some sort of 4D chess move. *It's not.*

This is chickens coming home to roost from US actions in Iran, with tariffs, and other things introducing economic uncertainty.

As you alluded to; this is terrible for Republicans in power. And quite useful for Democrats.

gcanyon 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It doesn’t matter whether it is a good move; just whether they think it’s a good move.

	▲	m-hodges 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They don’t. They aren’t faking the BLS numbers as an electoral strategy. No one at WH or NRCC or CLF are rubbing their hands together as if this is all according to plan.