CNN anchor Jake Tapper pushed back on one Republican lawmaker’s attempt to clear President Donald Trump and Republicans of their stagnant economic numbers that came out this week. “That just doesn't hold water,” Tapper said, after U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) attempted to lay the nation’s plummeting job numbers on temporary sports events like the World Cup. The exchange began with Tapper asking Gimenez to answer for the economy delivered to voters by Trump and his congressional Republican majority in weeks preceding a problematic November mid-term. “The World Cup lasted three weeks into July, and we had an economist on earlier who said that that just doesn't hold water. In terms of the Trump economy versus the Biden economy, I mean, … President Trump won quite handily in 2024.