U.S. under Trump Series: Republicans’ secret wave in mid-term election

As the U.S. midterm election approaches, Republicans all over the country has one big advantage; a manufacturing revival under the Trump administration, at least in terms of jobs. While the Democrats have a historical advantage along with some charged up supporters, Republicans have a stronger economy, tax cuts, and this big manufacturing revival advantage on their side.

• The devastation caused to the United States’ manufacturing employment is quite visible in the above chart based on data from U.S. ADP. The decline coincided with the creation of the European Union and China joining the WTO in 2001.
• The manufacturing recovery has been very weak. After seven years of job loss, the sector first created jobs in 2010. Since 2010, the Obama administration created 0.81 million jobs in the manufacturing sector, far less than the number of manufacturing jobs lost in 2009 alone.
• Now, to Trump’s advantage, he has taken up the agenda for these lost people, well before anyone else could. In additional advantage, his administration has successfully reversed the prior downtrend in manufacturing jobs and under the administrations watch, the economy added more jobs in less than 18 months in the sector than the last three years of Obama administration combined.

Many political analysts are predicting a blue wave in the Midterm election sweeping the country, largely due to charged up supporters and Trump’s so-called lower approval rating. However, we at FxWirePro believe that it wouldn’t be sufficient for the Democrats. The blue wave might counter the tax cuts and the economic advantages of the administration, the manufacturing revival and hope of further revival would push the Republicans to the finish line.