President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail as he seeks to shore up lagging enthusiasm in his party ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
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he → seek → elections
On Friday, he’ll attend a rally in Alabama, then travel to Ohio on Saturday.
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he → attend → Saturday
He could have his work cut out for him: Just 26% of U.S. adults approve of his handling of the economy overall, marking a new low, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Trump’s immigration policies, meanwhile, are finding renewed attention in the Supreme Court, which agreed Thursday to review his administration’s denial of bond hearings for immigrants during its sweeping crackdown.
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which → find → crackdown
The justices will consider whether immigrants who’ve been living in the U.S. have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation.
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they → consider → deportation
Here’s the latest:
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latest → ’ → ?
Hiring slipped and unemployment rose last month in the final jobs report before midterms
U.S. businesses and other employers added just 29,000 job in September, down from a revised 133,000 in August and far fewer than economists had expected.
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economists → slip → August
The unemployment rate rose to a still-low 4.2% from 4.1%, the Labor Department said.
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Department → rise → %
Job gains in July were revised lower to show employers shed 10,000 jobs that month.
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employers → revise → jobs
Average wages rose 3% in August from a year earlier, the slowest pace in five years.
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wages → rise → years
Americans’ paychecks are trailing inflation.
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paychecks → trail → inflation
The jobs report underscores the political challenge for Trump and congressional Republicans: Unemployment is low and layoffs are rare, but stubbornly high inflation is eroding consumers’ ability to afford things like gas, food, and housing.
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inflation → underscore → gas
A recent survey by The Associated Press found just 17% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the cost of living.
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% → find → living
Trump: Europe agrees to release diesel reserves ‘immediately’ as fuel prices hover near record highs
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prices → agree → highs
President Trump said Friday that Europe has agreed to release some of its diesel reserves “immediately,” as the president and his Republican Party face pressure to address surging prices ahead of November’s midterm elections.
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president → say → elections
Trump announced the action on social media without offering details on which countries were releasing reserves or at what volumes.
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countries → announce → volumes
Trump writes, “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil.”
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Europe → write → Oil
Trump says, “The process will begin immediately.”
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process → say → ?
The president faces lagging approval ratings as the Iran war and his trade battles have increased U.S. prices for oil and other goods.
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war → face → oil
Households will pay more for energy because of Trump’s policy changes, think tank says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank.
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Trump → pay → tank
The Energy Innovation analysis found that households will pay an average of $6,500 more for energy, cumulatively through 2040.
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households → find → 2040
In five states, households will pay roughly $9,000 more: Oregon, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming.
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households → pay → 9,000
The California-based think tank says there’ll be more demand for natural gas for electricity because the administration is canceling new clean energy projects and there’ll be more demand for gasoline for transportation because Trump and Congress are revoking policies that encouraged or created incentives for more efficient and lower-emissions vehicles.
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that → base → vehicles
Higher demand drives prices up.
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demand → drive → prices
Trump administration says it has no plans for ICE officers at polls.
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it → say → polls
Activists are preparing, anyway
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Activists → prepare → ?
With early voting already underway, a question worrying some voters is what role — if any — immigration enforcement officers might have at polling places through Election Day.
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officers → worry → Day
Department of Homeland Security officials say they don’t plan to send immigration enforcement officers en masse to patrol the polls and dismissed concerns that they plan to do so as “fearmongering.”
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they → say → concerns
Election legal experts say federal law clearly prevents the government from deploying any armed troops, agents or officers to election sites except to “repel armed enemies of the United States,” a high bar to clear.
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law → say → bar
But organizations who represent Latino, Black and Asian American voters say the rhetoric and ICE’s own activity make them worried at a time the number of immigration arrests is soaring as President Trump carries out his mass deportation agenda.
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Trump → represent → agenda
Trump tried to make an ally out of fishermen.
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Trump → try → fishermen
Some have started to turn on him
John Evich, a commercial fisherman in Washington and Alaska, has voted for President Donald Trump three times, viewing him as someone who would fight for his industry.
But these days, Evich is weary of the high cost of doing business at sea, with fuel prices rising and trade hostilities with Canada jeopardizing markets for the crabs that he pulls off the ocean floor.
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he → start → floor
“If somebody came along that was going to do a better job, I would vote for them in a heartbeat,” he said.
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he → come → heartbeat
Evich’s sentiment, echoed throughout the U.S. seafood industry, is another piece of a political puzzle that’s working against Trump in the midterm elections.
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that → echo → elections
Dissatisfaction among commercial fishermen could cause collateral damage for Republicans in competitive races in Washington, Alaska and Maine.
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Trump blitzes toward the midterms with campaign rallies across the country
President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail as he seeks to shore up lagging enthusiasm in his party ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
He could have their work cut out for him, though.
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work → blitz → him
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that only 17% of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s handling of the cost of living.
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% → find → living
Just 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, marking a new low.
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% → approve → low
Republicans have expressed growing pessimism about their chances in the election, which will determine control of Congress, as the president has repeatedly dismissed concerns about high costs and gas prices as his unpopular war in Iran drags on.
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war → express → Iran
According to Trump, his party has merely done a poor job of public relations in promoting his administration’s accomplishments.
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The Aporia
