Record economic growth on the way as election approaches

By Jay Heflin

Published August 5, 2020 10:30am ET

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The economy is on course for a record jump in gross domestic product in the third quarter, which will be announced shortly before November’s election.

“I certainly think it will be double digits,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, the president of the center-right economic think tank American Action Forum who was also the chief economic policy adviser to Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

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