Early in his second term the president’s team said it could take a year to assume ownership of the economy. On Super Bowl Sunday a couple of weeks back, Trump announced: “We’re there now.” But selling the country on that message – in tonight’s State of the Union address, and then over months of midterm election campaigning – will be a daunting task.
Voters apparently don’t agree with Trump’s claim, repeated Monday, that the country is enjoying the “greatest economy” ever. A recent Washington Post-ABC ...