A senior economic adviser to Donald Trump said Friday's job report, the second-to-last before voters cast their ballots on Nov. 8, reaffirms that the economic policies championed by President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "failing" Americans.

"Today's weak September jobs report confirmed what people feel — that the Clinton-Obama economy is failing them," said David Malpass, a former GOP Senate candidate and top economist, in a statement released by the Trump campaign. "Americans desperately need more jobs and new economic policies, not the same-old, same-old offered by the Clinton campaign.

"The economy added only 156,000 jobs in September and there was a downward revision to previous months. The unemployment rate went up to 5 percent ... The overall unemployment rate is stuck at 9.7 percent," Malpass said.

"The report shows a troubling long-term trend: After seven hard years of the Clinton-Obama administration, their policies still can't produce better-paying jobs and upward mobility," he opined.

"We see many jobs in services, and too few better-paying jobs making the goods Americans use and can export to the rest of world," Malpass noted, echoing the populist economic message the Republican presidential nominee has carried to states that have witnessed a mass exodus of manufacturing jobs. "We actually lost 13,000 manufacturing jobs in September.

"Four more years of Clinton-Obama policies would mean four more years of mediocrity or worse for American workers," he said. "Americans deserve change and are demanding it. Lower taxes and regulatory reform under the leadership of President Trump will bring back earnings trapped abroad and will create the jobs that families deserve."

Trump has long criticized the declining labor force participation rate under the Obama administration, and claims multinational trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership do more harm than good to the U.S. economy and middle-class Americans.