By Carl P. Leubsdorf, The Dallas Morning News (TNS) Until the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump counted on a surging economy to propel him to reelection. In a sense, he still does. Hardly a day passes when Trump doesn’t predict that pent-up demand will ignite a new economic boom later this year. But the president’s political problem is that the economy won’t likely surge enough, if at all,