ECONOMY/ELECTION/PENNSYLVANIA/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a potentially difficult path to winning a second term in November 2020, on Monday [5-20-19] told supporters in Pennsylvania that his trade war had strengthened the battleground state’s steel industry and jobs. Although Trump does not launch his re-election bid officially until next month, his appearance at a raucous rally in an airport hangar in northeastern Pennsylvania, using Air Force One as a backdrop, had the hallmarks of a campaign event. He took aim at Democratic front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden. ‘Sleepy Joe said that he’s running to ‘save the world.’ … He’s going to save every country but ours,’ Trump said. The president previewed the arguments he will make to voters in the 2020 election, crediting his trade stance with helping the U.S. economy.”
–Steve Holland, Roberta Rampton, “Trump tells Pennsylvania voters that trade war has helped economy,” Reuters, May 21, 2019 11:27 am