President Trump’s top economic adviser said Thursday that Democratic attempts to downplay America’s greatness won’t be a successful campaign strategy for them in November.
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow was responding to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said America was “never that great.”
“I still don’t know why Andrew would say that,” Kudlow said in response in a Fox News interview Thursday morning. “Even his own crowd starts booing him.”
“I have no idea, I think he’s just gone off the tracks on this,” Kudlow added.
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He said Democrats would find it hard to argue that Trump hasn’t improved the U.S. economy.
“The single most important political story this year by far is the economic boom that virtually no one expected to happen,” Kudlow said. “This is going to have a huge impact on the November midterm elections,” he said.
For that reason, he said, remarks like those made by Cuomo would fall flat.
“It’s not going to work,” he said. “The story this year is an economic boom that virtually no one expected, and frankly, whatever you think, President Trump, who has completely revised our policies… you just gotta give him credit. No more punishing success, no more attacking business, look at these confidence numbers.”
“There’s new management in town, I think it’s working,” Kudlow said.
Cuomo received some criticism for saying America was “never that great,” and his staff said Cuomo was trying to say America still has room to improve. But Kudlow said the remark backfired.
“Why Andrew would make a horrible statement like that is just beyond belief to me,” he said. “I just don’t get it.”
