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A set of focus groups featuring 2024 Trump voters showed them largely sticking with the president, but they also showed discontent around the economy and immigration.

President Donald Trump says he believes the 2026 midterm elections will center on “pricing” as Republicans head into a critical period with control of Congress on the line.

President Donald Trump has said the 2026 midterm elections will be “about pricing,” showing how he is reframing his economic messaging after calling Democrats’ focus on affordability a “dead” issue. “I think it’s going to be about the success of our country.

The president faces the inevitable waning of power in a second term, but he also will begin the year with an erosion in political support.

President Trump met with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 28 to discuss a proposal to end the four-year-old conflict.

President Donald Trump is spending the end of the year trying to cash in huge foreign policy bets on which thousands of lives may depend and that will define his attempt to wield decisive power far beyond American shores.

With the wind at his back after a new inflation report, President Trump is predicting the 2026 elections will be about “pricing.”

The Wall Street Journal rejected the latest stolen election conspiracy theory to be proffered by allies of President Donald Trump in a new editorial.

During his remarks in a press briefing with Volodymyr Zelenskyy today, President Trump began peddling election conspiracies. Trump stated, "If the election weren't rigged, this war would've never happened.

The next presidential election is several eternities away from now in terms of politics. Only a fool would try to predict the form of the political conversation in three years, much less a few months in the unpredictable Trump era.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to push for progress in the stalled ceasefire in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for talks that will include Israel's concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran.