Vice President Kamala Harris woke up to some mixed news on the final Friday before Election Day. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the US economy added only 12,000 jobs. That number came largely because of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton as well as labor strikes. Nonetheless, the Trump campaign criticized the low jobs numbers as a sticking point, even though they know this is likely to happen amid natural disasters.
At the same time, she got a goodie in her trick-or-treat bag at the end of Halloween: a new poll from Marist showed that she leads Donald Trump by 2 points in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while leading Trump by three points in Michigan. Throughout the campaign, Trump has led on the economy by a wide margin as many people continue to feel the pain of inflation at the gas pump or the grocery.
