Final Thoughts
October 9, 2020
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
We are now 23 days from the close of the 2020 presidential election. I think all of us, no matter how we use our vote, are hoping for a quick decision and then an orderly move to either the second term of President Trump or the new Biden administration. If you have not already voted, I highly encourage you to do so as early as your state allows.
We are conducting one of our flat rolled and plate steel market trends surveys this week. We are going to canvass (confidentially) our respondents to see what steel industry executives are thinking when it comes to this year’s election. The last few months may have changed some minds since we took our straw poll at this year’s SMU Steel Summit Conference. Just to remind everyone, at the end of August, 53 percent of the respondents were supporting Trump, 41 percent Biden and 6 percent were supporting someone else or not yet committed to one candidate.
