Transcript The Hutchinson Report If Trump Wins, Sadly Here's Why

This is Earl Ofari Hutchinson again with another edition of the Hutchinson Report commentary. Let's go back to a date, a date that will always stick in my mind, September 11, 2016. On that date, I said, Donald Trump might win. All the pundits, all the analysts, the general electorate and certainly much of the media said, no chance. Reality star clown who can take him seriously.

He's going nowhere. It will be Hillary Clinton will be the next president. I said, ah, not so fast. He might win. I gave my reasons why.

Let's fast forward now eight years. It's now October 2024. Again, the Hutchinson Report commentary today says this. If Trump wins, and he could, here's why, sadly, here's why. There's several factors that go into why he could win again.

Going back to what I said in 2016, many of them are still in play. Number one, America is a right center country. It's still conservative. When you look at the heartland of America from coast to coast, with the exception of the west and the east coast portions, it's red America, very evangelical, very conservative, very traditional, and very republican. Secondly, hot button issues, emotional issues, gender, race and immigration.

Trump has played on that hard. His base, gender, race and immigration. It touches a nerve. And in fact, no matter how much sensationalism, how simplistic and how many lies above those issues, it still touches a nerve. The economy, Biden and Harris, it's their economy, even though it's doing well.

Jobs are up, employment's up, opportunities are up. Businesses, startups are up. The financial markets are doing well. Nonetheless, there's trepidation and unease about the high cost of living and where we're going with the economy. Many people are nervous, many people are fearful, and many people are strapped, even though the economy on the surface is doing well.

It's the ancient line. It's the economy, stupid. So that could hurt a Harris and a Biden, in this case, Harrison Biden, and it can help Donald Trump. A fourth thing Trump many people forget was president and his record cuts both ways, the good and the bad, depending on how you spend it. Trump continually says unemployment was down, more jobs than ever, the economy where the financial markets are doing well.

And to an extent, there's truth to that. He takes full credit. He can't. That partially was Obama, partially cyclical nature of capitalism, but he was the president. He gets credit.

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