“Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression,” Harris said. “Donald Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century. Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War, and what we have done is clean up Donald Trump’s mess.”
“But the only jobs they got were bounce-back jobs,” Trump said about job creation under Biden. “These were jobs bounce back, and it bounced back and it went to their benefit. But I was the one that created them. They know it, and so does everybody else.” Employment rates have not fully recovered. The employment-to-population ratio stood at 60% last month. That is down from the 61.1% level it was at in February 2020, right before the pandemic took hold.