Here's why the 2020 election-year economy is shaping up perfectly for Trump

Associated Press

• Trump is making the strength of the economy central to his re-election bid.
• He has good reason to, given strong job growth, low unemployment and decent annual wage gains.
• "The economy is clearly an asset for him," said one conservative economist.
• But the economy is also pricing out Americans in the middle class as inequality widens under Trump.
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President Trump has thrust the economy toward the center of his re-election pitch — and key economic datapoints on the surface couldn't be better for him.

The latest jobs report on Friday saw 225,000 payrolls added in January, a better-than-expected showing than economists forecasted and underscoring an economic expansion now in its 11th year.

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