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Candidates for public office, make causal claims all the time for each of the following snippets from a key speech made by a candidate, identify the key causal claim made in the speech, and whether based on the information given, you are convinced that all four causal hurdles have been crossed .

America is one of the highest taxed nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies in new jobs to come roaring back into our country. Then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest job killers of them all. Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as 2 trillion a year and we will end it. We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than 20 trillion in job creating economic activity over the next four decades. (exit from Donald Trump speech excepting the Republican nomination for president, July 21, 2016.)
Now, I don't think President Obama and vice president Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office. Nearly 15,000,000 new private sector jobs. 20 million more Americans have health insurance. And an auto industry that just had its best year ever. That's real progress.(exert from Hillary Clinton speech excepting the Democratic nomination for president July 28, 2016.)
The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives on healthcare and education and the economy. Senator McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has made great progress under this president. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and when one of his chief advisers, the man who wrote his economic plan, was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we are just suffering from a mental recession, and that we've become, and I quote, and nation of whiners. (exert from Barack Obama speech excepting the Democratic nomination for president, August 28, 2008.)
His, Barack Obama's, policies have not helped create jobs, they have depressed them. And this, I can tell you about where President Obama would take America. His plan to raise taxes on small business won't add jobs, it will illuminate them. And his trillion dollar deficit was slower economy, restrain employment, and causeway, just to stall. (excerpt from Mitt Romney speech excepting the Republican nomination for president, August 30, 2012.)