President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room on Friday to tout good news about the economy ― and he called out a Republican senator for claiming the numbers are “fake.”
“Anything the MAGA Republicans don’t like, they call fake. Anything,” Biden said. “Job numbers are what the job numbers are. They’re real.”
The national unemployment rate ticked down from 4.2% to 4.1% as the economy added a better-than-expected 256,000 jobs in September, the government reported Friday.
The jobs report is one of the last major pieces of economic data that will come out ahead of next month’s presidential election, and it’s good news for Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House. Voters have generally said they think former president Donald Trump would be better on the economy, but Harris has narrowed the gap in recent weeks.
Earlier on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) baselessly complained that the jobs numbers had…