Unemployment is low — especially in South Carolina — and consumer confidence has been high. And the conventional wisdom is that a strong economy helps buoy incumbent presidents to reelection.
"Every single policy area in the United States has a gigantic subtext of race," he said."We're talking about education. We're talking about criminal justice. We're talking about housing. We're talking about loans."
Carter read the total aloud:"Two-hundred-and-eighty-thousand dollars, seventy-four dollars and fifty-eight cents." "You can kind of see the structure and see the opportunity instead of drowning in your situation," said Jessica Bright, South Carolina state director for Sanders."So definitely the time is right to change structurally, change the systems that we're going up against."
That doesn't mean they give Trump credit, though. Joyce Delk, who went doorknocking in South Carolina for Biden last week, gives him some credit for today's economy.
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