This is the same guy who, in the wake of Biden’s godawful debate with Trump on June 27, was asking similarly unanswerable questions on CNN about who was actually President.

The gap that I still see in all these speeches, as good as they were, is that she’s in the White House right now. Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years. And for all of the talk about division and the problems in the country and people are hurting, Democrats have mostly controlled this country.

Trump had it for four. The Obamas and Biden had it for the rest of the time. And somehow, it’s still all Trump’s fault, and somehow she hasn’t been at the center of it. So to me, that’s still the glaring hole in this campaign that hasn’t yet been solved at the convention. How do you explain all of the problems that will be solved by the person who is currently in there for the last three and a half years who is supposed to already be working on solving it?

And as yet another example, this bombshell dropped today, Bureau of Labor Statistics Announces Largest Downward Revision in Jobs in 15 Years:

Okay, so the BLS doesn’t actually count jobs; it does surveys of households and employers and that can be a tough cycle on a monthly basis, which is why revisions are done of the data over longer periods of time. But it’s been doing the same stuff for a while now and so the answer is likely not incompetence but simply that the economy and the jobs market are heading South faster than could be caught by earlier surveys (rather like Orr and the RBNZ the other day).

Speaking of incompetence in the Biden team, and the wider Democrat Party, a member of Biden’s cabinet had this response to the announcement when she was cornered by an ABC reporter at the DNC convention in Chicago asking her about how nearly a million jobs “created” since Joe and Kamala took office don’t exist (click link for video):

Reporter: When you hear that, do you potentially think that these new numbers could be a liability for this campaign.
Raimondo: “First of all I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Trump say anything truthful.”
Reporter: “It is from the Bureau of Labor.”
Raimondo: “I’m not familiar with that.”

Ms Raimondo is the Secretary of Commerce to whom the BLS reports. Lying or stupid-ignorant? I think the latter in this case because if she had known the figures she surely would have a better answer than outright denial.