White House Correspondent @USATODAY covering foreign policy & U.S. presidential elections. If they've run for president, I've probably covered them. Rock Chalk.
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🆕Hakeem Jeffries is promising voters his party will make life more affordable, if they boot Republicans from power in the midterms.
That could prove tough: Dems' ability to move their agenda may rest on his ability to cut deals with President Trump.
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🆕️ As he travels across the country to stump for GOP candidates in the final stretch of the midterm election, Trump has painted a rosy picture of the economy during his second term.
Most voters take a dimmer view.
Story w/@zacjanderson in @USATODAY
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It’s Monday with @WayTooEarly and we are 15 days from the midterms:
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So…@PhilipWegmann and I happened to be mid-interview with Katie Zacharia when she was called out of her office midday on Friday.
She never returned—to the interview, or the job.
The Five Days of Katie, with @marianne_levine:
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“Her five-day stint means that she didn't last half the 11 days Anthony Scaramucci worked as White House communications director during Trump's first term before he was fired” with @joeygarrison @fran_chambers @ganjansen
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Of note: Jeffries told me that in addition to housing affordability, he and Jared Kushner discussed criminal justice reform.
👀Is that an area Jeffries is eyeing for potential future collaboration with Republicans/the Trump administration? It's one to watch.
🆕Hakeem Jeffries is promising voters his party will make life more affordable, if they boot Republicans from power in the midterms.
That could prove tough: Dems' ability to move their agenda may rest on his ability to cut deals with President Trump.
usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
Our full @RepJeffries interview is out.
We discussed:
- artificial intelligence
- Democrats' agenda
- investigations they make take up
- the Kushner meeting
- cutting deals with President Trump
- DSA, AOC and more:
youtube.com/watch?v=HxsBDen9…
🆕Democrats could gain a new weapon in their battle next year against President Trump: control of the House of Representatives.
Their caucus is likely to be a mix of far-left lawmakers & vulnerable moderates. Can leader Hakeem Jeffries keep them in line?
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☝️More from our @USATODAY interview with House Democratic leader @RepJeffries. Story with @ZachSchermele.
🆕️ Hakeem Jeffries says 'sky's the limit' for AOC
Jefferies isn’t ready to make a 2028 pick but told @USATODAY in an interview “the sky's the limit” for fellow NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who's weighing a U.S. Senate bid or a presidential run.
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Quite the call out here from Vice President Vance re: the presidential ambitions of Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz’s efforts to engineer a clash don’t bother Vance, he told @HenryJGomez
“It is really obvious to me that, at this very moment, Ted Cruz is running for president,” Vance said. “At this moment, I’m not. I’m trying to help elect Republicans.”
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I asked POTUS what his message is to Latino voters who say they feel betrayed by his administration's immigration and economic policies.
He said: “We have to do what we have to do.”
📺This afternoon I sat down with House Minority Leader @hakeemjeffries for a wide-ranging discussion ahead of the midterms.
He called AI a "safety crisis" and threw his support behind "rigid" guardrails. First clip & story here: 👇
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Very interesting window into President Trump's view of the midterms & campaign plans just now at his Hispanic heritage event. "I'm going out because nobody's selling it. I'm doing- we're doing an extremely poor job of promotion, and an extremely great job of running the country."
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1/ New from me: Chinese diplos scrambled 90 min before the Xi/Trump visit to the National Archives to stop a Taiwan-related treaty from being shown.
..."an indication of pushback from within the U.S. gov against President Trump's warm reception of Xi.."
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Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev was in Washington on Monday, meeting with U.S. officials to continue “constructive discussions on a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and possible U.S.-Russia energy initiatives after the war ends,” per US official.
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As Russia struggles on the battlefield in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is increasing attacks on NATO allies to test the alliance and weaken support for Ukraine.
w/ @fran_chambers in @USATODAY
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The past month marked an escalation in tension between NATO and Putin, as the U.S. and Europe seek to deter Russia without being dragged directly into the war in Ukraine.
Russia is "testing how far they can go," the EU's @kajakallas told @USATODAY.
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