Perhaps not. They may be depressing the numbers now so they can claim “recovery” closer to the election.
It has taken months and months and months of slow, steady deliberate incremental lying to get the number down from 10%. While I wouldn’t put it past them, I think the task would be herculean to take dismal numbers (vastly optimized by big government and the complicit media) back down......
They are busting at the seams with their lies and their pants have split up the backside. They just can’t continue with believable lies when virtually no one in real America sees day-to-day confirmation that their lies are true.