The Republican candidates walking a Trump tightrope

BBC World reports: The Republican candidates walking a Trump tightrope As US President Donald Trump hits the campaign trail in the final sprint to the midterm elections, he is launching an emphatic defence of America's economic performance, trying - as he often does - to bend reality to his will. "We have the best economic numbers of any president in the history of our country, and yet people don't know about it because the press won't talk about it," he said last week. While some economic indicators, including roaring stock market indexes and low US poverty rates, are indeed historic, the overall picture is not nearly as rosy.

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