Better off? How the 2024 election could redefine 2020, too

Published November 5, 2024 9:40am ET



Like Ronald Reagan in 1980, former President Donald Trump often asks a question on the campaign trail: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Unlike Reagan 44 years ago, Trump is posing this as someone who has already served a term in the White House. It fits in with another of his campaign slogans: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris broke it, Trump will fix it.

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