New numbers show the Trump expansion isn't hitting states Trump needs

In light of Friday's release of the state-by-state jobs report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we now have data through the first half of 2019. And it reiterates a theme I have made since the GOP Tax Scam was signed into law - that the Midwest has been left behind in the expansion that has taken place since the Scam was signed by President Trump in December 2017.

While the US jobs market has maintained decent growth in that time, that's not the case for our part of the country. And that's especially true for the Rust Belt and Upper Midwest states that Donald Trump needs to win in order to stay in office past 2020.

And that's even more true when you look at the last 12 months, as the rate of job growth in the US is between 2 to 5 times the growth in these states.

So what parts of the country are growing in that same time period? The West and the South...and Illinois? Yeah, Illinois.

Reminder, we are looking at non-farm jobs here. So it doesn't account for many of the losses we've seen in that sector of the economy over that same time period, which likely would show an even worse situation. This might help explain why Trump is underwater by 7-16 points in all of these must-win states, and why trying to sell the GOP Tax Scam in 2020 might not work as well as our rich, connected and Coastal media think it will.

It's also why Dems should hammer on inequality and the Bubblicious nature of much of our economy, because it is not working in wide swaths of our country.