In an editorial titled, “The Man and the Record,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the largest-circulation Western Pennsylvania newspaper, on Sunday endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election. The endorsement was motivated by Trump’s policies for the U.S. economy, and the economic progress he had achieved over three years up to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Let’s look at the Trump record,” the editors wrote. “Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years. Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party. Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope. Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them.”
“Most importantly,” it adds, “Where would Western Pennsylvania be without the Shell Petrochemical Complex (the ‘cracker plant')?”
