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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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to put his head down and purse his lips in dismay after U.S. President Donald Trump made an audacious claim about the ongoing, bloody war in Ukraine

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

The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is dismissing a conspiracy theory about 2020 election integrity in Georgia that has gained more traction among Republicans in recent days. “The

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.

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.

The president posted on Truth Social over 100 times overnight, also touting his own economic policies and efforts to end foreign wars.

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