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WATCH: Nancy Pelosi SNAPS After MSNBC Host Fact-Checks Her On Trump’s Record

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On Monday former Speaker Nancy Pelosi snapped at MSNBC host Katy Tur after being fact-checked on President Joe Biden’s economic record compared to former President Donald Trump’s tenure.

Pelosi, in her vigorous defense of Joe Biden, asserted, “Joe Biden… created 9 million jobs in his term in office. Donald Trump has the worst record of job loss of any president. So we just have to make sure people know.”

The statement set the stage for a contentious back-and-forth as Tur interjected, reminding the Speaker, “That was a global pandemic.” Pelosi doubled down on her critique of the former president, saying, “He had the worst record of any president. We’ve had other concerns in our country. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role, but it ain’t mine.”

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Republicans and Biden critics have long argued that these figures merely represent a rebound from the losses incurred during the pandemic, rather than genuine growth. In recent campaign stops, Biden has oscillated between remarking on the economy and attacking Trump. During a multi-state swing earlier this month, he zeroed in on Trump’s “border bloodbath” comment. Weeks later, the Democrat spent several days in Pennsylvania where he spoke about reforms to the tax code that he said would benefit middle-class Americans.

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The passage of time is also working against the 80-year-old incumbent. 55% of poll respondents said they view Trump’s four years as a success for the country while 44% still see them as a failure. Those figures mirror the opposite from where Trump stood shortly after leaving office.

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