Job creation

The WV GOP regularly tweets about President Biden’s handling of the economy. In particular, they especially like to criticize his job creation numbers:

CNN On Jobs Report: “Way Less, Way Less Than Anybody Expected…Worst Of The Year”https://t.co/48NcCR8Ahh

— WVGOP (@WVGOP) October 10, 2021

And here is another one:

The August Job's Report was an unbelievable disaster! https://t.co/j4mv0qKVjy

— WVGOP (@WVGOP) September 9, 2021

However, it turns out that those numbers were in error. Earlier today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics admitted that they made the largest miscalculation in their history:

Bureau of Labor Statistics says it underestimated June-Sept job growth by 626,000 jobs, the largest underestimate in BLS history - https://t.co/NhVL9aGg42

— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 17, 2021

I’m sure the WV GOP will note their error and issue a correction because they would never want to mislead the public on Joe Biden.

Pink slips

Here is what is at the top of the WV GOP’s Twitter page as I write this:

"Biden seems more interested in handing out pink slips than in getting people vaccinated."https://t.co/XUK3QNFH79

— WVGOP (@WVGOP) November 17, 2021

Over the last year, I’ve written a number of posts that correlate Republican and Trump-voting states with higher death rates from the virus. Here is the most recent from Phillip Bump at the Washington Post:

The death toll was worse in more-Republican parts of the country even before the vaccine but the gap widened since the vaccine — including within the region hardest hit by the fourth wave. https://t.co/Gx3IvP0m1s pic.twitter.com/QnSNM4ssnG

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 9, 2021

Bump's conclusion:

The pandemic is partisan, as it has been for more than a year. But that partisanship has only grown increasingly deadly.

Bump's conclusion matches those of similar studies. Why does the GOP want to kill its own followers?