In a dubious bit of bad timing, the author of Joe Biden’s failed economic plan has joined the Harris campaign – just as a Wall Street meltdown and looming recession is hitting voters.

The economic double cross could give a much needed boost to the Trump campaign, which is reeling and trying to link disastrous Biden policies to Kamala Harris’s campaign.

Hiring Gene Sperling, Biden’s senior economic adviser, is a puzzling move given the fact that Harris is trying to run away from Biden’s failed economic policies.

Remember, “It’s the economy, stupid,” the message that Bill Clinton rode to the White House in 1992? The Harris campaign doesn’t seem to be heeding that advice this year.

Sperling will be a senior economic adviser to Harris. He began his government career with Clinton and as Barack Obama’s director of the White House National Economic Council. He was coordinator of billions of dollars in pandemic spending under Biden.

“Under Gene’s leadership, the American Rescue Plan has delivered economic relief to cities and counties across the country, protected millions of union pensions, made the largest ever federal investment in public safety and kept thousands of businesses afloat,” Biden said in a statement to AP.

The American Rescue Plan also helped trigger record inflation under Sperling’s leadership, which the Trump campaign is trying to exploit and has made millions of voters angry and broke.

A much weaker than expected jobs report triggered a Wall Street meltdown on Monday, raising more fears of a coming recession.

Trump responded by labeling the steep stock plunge as the  “Kamala Crash.” The Dow Jones average shed more than 1,000 points after dropping nearly that amount on Friday.

“Markets will NEVER accept the Radical Left Lunatic that DESTROYED San Francisco and California, as a whole,” Trump wrote on social media. “Next move, the GREAT DEPRESSION of 2024!”

A recession would be devastating to the Democrats’ efforts to hold on to the White House, coming already with Americans irate over higher food prices and nervous about an expanded war in the Middle East between Iran and Israel.

“STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III,” Trump wrote in all caps.

The Trump campaign is desperately trying to define Harris as a Biden clone in hopes of blunting her surge in the polls and coming convention coronation later this month.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)