Analilia Mejia's win with a nearly 20-point margin over Hathaway is significant, indicating strong voter support for Democrats in the current political climate.
"I was thinking, well, it's a little inconsistent for me to refuse induction, refuse to go into the military, yet pay taxes that would fund other people to go into the military," the 81-year-old told Fortune.
"We've never seen any president profit off of something like the Trump Store, or indeed, any of the numerous businesses that Trump has continued to profit from while serving as president," CREW communications director Meghan Faulkner tells Fast Company.
Typical of Trump, he is boasting about the performance of the U.S. economy in the most hyperbolic terms. He even declared that his economy is 'the greatest ever in history' in a recent interview on Fox Business Network. He points to the stock market and allegedly low inflation to back his claim.
What they're saying: "The market has gotten comfortable, maybe naively," Trevor Slaven, global head of asset allocation at Barings, tells Axios, adding that investors seem to think 70% of Trump's policies are "just bluster." The other 30% is when Trump takes steps toward a more "aggressive approach" only to walk that back after getting checked by either the market or other advisors, Slaven says.
"It's the least conservative government of my lifetime." Wolfers, who the IMF once named one of 25 young economists in the world "shaping the way we think about the global economy," said that Trump's undermining of federal institutions' independence and propensity to insert himself in private sector decisions is reorienting the economy away from a productive and predictable path. The result, Wolfers warned, could be a generation of missed opportunities and lost growth.