CNN’s Daniel Dale Shades Tim Walz for Wrong Claim About Trump’s Jobs Record: ‘Not Even Close To True’
CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale fact checked Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s claim that former President Donald Trump lost more manufacturing jobs than any other president during his term.
Dale joined CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on Tuesday for his usual round of political fact checks, most of them pertaining to Trump and his public statements on Hurricane Helene efforts, including falsely claiming the federal government “ran out of money” to help North Carolina.
Dale ended his segment though by pouring cold water over a hit Walz made against Trump previously on The View.
During his View appearance, Walz declared that under Trump more manufacturing jobs were lost than during any other administration in history.
“That’s simply factual,” Walz confidently told the audience.
“If you’re going to say something is ‘simply factual,’ it should be factual. This is not. It’s not true that the Trump presidency lost more manufacturing jobs than any other presidency,” Dale told Bolduan. “Under George W. Bush, there were about 4.5 million manufacturing jobs lost. Under Trump, it was about 178,000. But there are also more manufacturing jobs lost than under Trump: under Eisenhower, under Ford, under Reagan. So Trump does not have the record.”
He also pointed out that important context is that much of the manufacturing losses during Trump’s administration were tied to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I think it’s also worth pointing out for context that these Trump job losses in manufacturing overwhelmingly occurred because of the Covid pandemic. Pre-pandemic, under Trump, there was a gain of about 414,000 manufacturing jobs. Again, he ended a negative 178,000, but that was largely because we had a pandemic-related crash,” he said.
In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Dale noted that Walz’s jobs claim was “not even close to true.”
“It is not factual. In fact, it’s not even close to true,” he wrote.
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