Polls throughout the 2024 election cycle have shown that one of the top issues driving Americans' opinions of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris is the state of the economy. And something that dovetails with that is the jobs picture, including the unemployment rate and how much money people are actually seeing in their paychecks.

During a segment on CNBC's "Squawk Box," anchor Jow Kernan pressed Harris campaign surrogate and Biden-Harris Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on the dubious claim that voters can't know what Trump will do on the economy as president.

Kernan, following up on Raimondo trying to attack Trump's tenure, pointed out that she "seems like [she] kind of forgot" what the reality of the situation was during his four years: 

🔥 MUST WATCH: @JoeSquawk torches Harris surrogate Gina Raimondo:

You forgot the Trump tariffs were continued by Harris-Biden, there was no recession, real wages were up, the stock market did well, record low unemployment pre-pandemic — it's weird to act like he's a wildcard. pic.twitter.com/KTjELc8Dfa

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 30, 2024

He said:

The tariffs that he did put on were continued by the Biden administration, there was no recession, real wages were actually up,  the stock market did well--a lot of really positive things happened. Record low unemployment until the pandemic.

So, it's just weird to act like it's a complete wildcard, what kind of president he would be, when you've got a blueprint right there.

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Kamala Harris has been vice president for four years, and we've seen exactly the kind of vice president [sic] she would be.

When she tries to erase the wins he just laid out for everyone to see, with a talking point on manufacturing jobs going up, Kernan isn't finished listing how much damage Harris has done to American workers' prospects. Shaking his head at times, he says:

I've seen an open border, I've seen real wages go down, I've seen crime--

Here's where Raimondo tries a snow job, claiming that the stat about real wages "isn't true." When the host challenges her, she doesn't provide any facts to back up her talking point. "Average weekly wages are still down," he says.

She sputters, then draws out the usual talking point:

When Biden came into office, we saw sky-high unemployment.

Kernan, with a devastating snow plow of a response, stated what everyone knows: The high unemployment was "from the pandemic."

I'll leave you with this. It's obvious that Raimondo didn't have a talking point prepped for a question about the dockworkers' strike, and how much chaos it could cause for the U.S. economy. Just listen to her treading water:

CNBC: What are you hearing will happen if dockworkers strike and it goes longer than a week?

Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo: "I have not been very focused on that."

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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024

These are the adults in the room we were told would mark a significant contrast to Donald Trump's team in the White House, but they've done nothing but put tire strips down to sabotage what was already a weakened economy caused by blue-state Democrat politicians mandating COVID shutdowns. Americans aren't going to be fooled by these ongoing attempts to snow them about what happened during the pandemic. Trump isn't responsible for the unemployment--or what Biden and Harris' policies have done over the past four years--and it's just a shell game to insist that he is.