Election 2020: The Economy As An Election Issue

With two months until the November presidential elections, Folio continues its series of critical discussions on the potential outcomes of the election at the national and state level; led by noted national commentator and Folio Board Secretary Mort Kondracke.

The US economy is officially in a COVID-induced recession, which makes economic recovery and lasting prosperity a major 2020 campaign issue between President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and their respective parties.

The fifth conversation of the series features Doug Ericksen, member of the Washington State Senate for the 42nd District in Whatcom County since 2011, and ranking Republican on the Energy, Environmental and Telecommunications Committee; Stanford University Political Science Prof. Margaret Levi, formerly of UW, who's developing a model US economy for the the coming Artificial Intelligence/robotics era, UW Political Science and Statistics Prof. Christopher Adolph who studies the politics of economic policy and health policy, and William…