Throughout this year’s presidential campaign, many economists have warned that Trump’s signature proposals — such as pulling out of free trade deals with Mexico and Canada and levying tariffs on foreign goods — could inflict substantial damage on the nation’s still-fragile recovery. A

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by Moody’s Analytics released earlier this summer predicted the country would slip into a recession by 2018, and the unemployment rate would rise to 7.4 percent.

“The U.S. economy will weaken significantly if Mr. Trump’s economic policies are fully implemented as he has proposed,” the paper stated.

Until recently, however, those plans appeared to resonate with the public. Trump had enjoyed a substantial lead over Clinton in polls assessing how they would handle the economy. But a CNN-ORC survey in late July found Clinton elbowing out Trump, 50 to 48 percent.

The difference is still within the poll’s margin of error, however, though the gap between the two candidates has narrowed. Meanwhile, a poll of registered voters by Fox News earlier this month showed Trump retaining his edge on the economy, 50 to 45 percent.

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Trump has made some attempts to moderate his hard-line stance. In a highly anticipated speech this month, he dialed back plans to cut taxes that was estimated to cost a whopping $10 trillion over the next decade. The new version more closely resembles a proposal already put forth by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), which was priced at less than half that amount — still controversial but much more feasible.

Economists have also taken issue with Trump’s positions on immigration, which include building a wall along the Mexican border and “extreme vetting” of newcomers. In the NABE survey, 61 percent of economists supported making it easier — not harder — for immigrants to work in the United States.