A senator, near the end of his first six-year term and running for reelection, made the claim: Citizens of our state are thriving  While national unemployment levels have remained high, our state unemployment rate has been at astonishingly low levels for eleven years running  Clearly, everyone in our state has benefitted from the economical packages I have introduced during my time in the Senate
Ttherefore, grateful citizens of our state ought to vote for my second term
It takes a condition to be the effect of something that has happened only after the condition already existed.